An predicate describing actors in events and a specialization of Animate Doer and non-deliberate actor (qq.v.). The predicate bodily doer relates a given physical event to any organism that is a non-deliberate doer of the event (i.e. the organism acts without conscious intention or volition). (bodily doer EVENT DOER) means that DOER does EVENT (which entails that DOER is not merely subjected to EVENT by external forces), but does it non-deliberately.
Note that for certain kinds of actions (e.g. physical growth, peristalsis, and reflex actions) organisms are always merely bodilyDoers; for certain other actions (e.g. breathing, flinching, and shouting) an organism commonly acts as a bodily doer, but sometimes acts instead as a deliberate performer (see performer).
Note also that an organism that dies of natural causes is the bodily doer of that event, because of the internal processes the body does during its death. And in certain PhysiologicalConditions, including an ailment condition (e.g. diabetes) or a healing process, organisms are considered to be bodilyDoers because their own bodily processes are creating or sustaining those conditions. An organism killed by an external agent, however, is just a agent physically acted on (q.v.) actor in that event; thus instances of killing should use agent physically acted on to describe the organism killed.
Note that for certain kinds of actions (e.g. physical growth, peristalsis, and reflex actions) organisms are always merely bodilyDoers; for certain other actions (e.g. breathing, flinching, and shouting) an organism commonly acts as a bodily doer, but sometimes acts instead as a deliberate performer (see performer).
Note also that an organism that dies of natural causes is the bodily doer of that event, because of the internal processes the body does during its death. And in certain PhysiologicalConditions, including an ailment condition (e.g. diabetes) or a healing process, organisms are considered to be bodilyDoers because their own bodily processes are creating or sustaining those conditions. An organism killed by an external agent, however, is just a agent physically acted on (q.v.) actor in that event; thus instances of killing should use agent physically acted on to describe the organism killed.