ISO 24617-4:2014的目的是为语义角色提出一个一致的注释方案；这就是说，一个方案表明参与者在一个事件或状态中扮演的角色，主要由一个动词来描述，并且通常回答诸如“？谁做了什么？对谁做了什么？”和？什么时候，？在哪里，？为什么呢？怎么做。这不仅包括动词与其参数之间的语义关系，还包括与名词化、名词、形容词和谓语修饰语等其他谓语成分相关的关系；副词的谓语作用和胁迫的使用不属于ISO 24617-4:2014的范围。

The aim of ISO 24617-4:2014 is to propose a consensual annotation scheme for semantic roles; that is to say, a scheme that indicates the role that a participant plays in an event or state, as described mostly by a verb, and typically providing answers to questions such as "?who' did?what' to?whom'", and?when',?where',?why', and?how'. This includes not only the semantic relations between a verb and its arguments but also those relations that are relevant for other predicative elements such as nominalizations, nouns, adjectives, and predicate modifiers; the predicating role of adverbs and the use of coercion fall outside the scope of ISO 24617-4:2014.