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Table 4 Top Agent, verb, and Patient combinations in Democratic and Republican tweets extracted by semantic role labeling with largest differences in frequency. The left column shows the combinations where the frequencies in Democratic tweets are larger than the frequencies in Republican tweets, and vice versa. Most combinations in Democratic tweets focus on resources and support, while combinations in Republican tweets discuss combating COVID, news updates, support for small businesses, and the threat of socialism

From: Characterizing partisan political narrative frameworks about COVID-19 on Twitter

Top Democratic combinations

Top Republican combinations

they, need, the resources

we, combat, covid

we, can, everything

I, holding, a news conference

we, do, more

covid, impacted, small businesses

they, need, the support

we, fight, covid

we, do, everything we can

governor hutchinson, provides, update

we, save, lives

we, moving, tax day

I, joined, my colleagues

I, provide, a covid update

we, do, what

I, holding, a press conference

those who, need, it

socialism, destroys, nations

we, recommit, ourselves

covid, affected, those