Purpose satellites provide a motivation for the occurrence of a (necessarily [+control]) SoA [state of affairs]-1 by specifying a future SoA-2 that the controller wishes to achieve through the SoA-1. For example: (79) John ran to the station ‘in order to catch the train’ Note that the purpose is necessarily ascribed to the controller: it was John who wanted to catch the train, and therefore he ran to the station.
- Dik (1989), a pag.207