We define organization as an established group of people with some social or societal purpose/function; this includes families, performing arts groups, schools, businesses, and governmental units:

• employees of the company (Org↝Gestalt) 001

• I work for the United Nations (Org↝Beneficiary) 002

• actors in the troupe (Org↝Locus) 003

Stative scenes include someone belonging to, being an employee of, or being in a business relationship with an Org; dynamic scenes include someone joining or leaving/beginning or ending an engagement with an Org.

• I was hired by Microsoft. (Org↝Agent) 004

Relations between organizations such as partnerships, subsidiaries, and super-organization/sub-organization are not covered by Org, nor are general mentions of organizations:

• My business was destroyed by Microsoft. (Agent) 005

• Microsoft's cloud services division (Whole) 006

Org lacks any prototypical adpositions in English, but participates in numerous construals:

• Org↝Gestalt with the institution as possessor:

• Mr. Dursley works for Grunnings. (Org↝Beneficiary) 013

• Mr. Dursley works at Grunnings. (Org↝Locus) 014

• Mr. Dursley is from Grunnings. (Org↝Source) 015

• Mr. Dursley is with Grunnings. (Org↝Ancillary) 016

• Mr. Dursley is employed by Grunnings. (Org↝Agent) 017

• Org↝Ancillary:

  • I always do business with this company. 018

  • I bank with TSB. 019

  • my phone service with Verizon 020

• For my Honda I always got replacement parts through the dealership. [intermediary business] (Org↝Instrument) 021

• I serve on the committee. (Org↝Locus) 022

A family counts as an institution construed as a Whole (set of its members) or as a Locus:

• I am the baby of the family. (Org↝Whole) 023

• people in my family (Org↝Locus) 024

For a relation between a unit and a larger institution, use Whole:

• the Principals Committee of the National Security Council (Whole) 025

See also: Stuff