<def-root>A <fen>Period</fen> or <fen>Eventuality</fen> is related to its <fen>Duration</fen>. Alternatively, an <fen>Entity</fen> may stand in metonymically for an <fen>Eventuality</fen> that it is involved in.
<ex><fex name="Entity">You</fex> wouldn't <t>last</t> <fex name="Duration">five minutes</fex>!</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A situation, action or event whose duration is being described. The <fen>Eventuality</fen> occurs as the External Argument if the adjective is used predicatively, or as the modified noun if the adjective is used attributively:
<ex><fex name="Eventuality">The lecture</fex> did n't <t>last</t> long .</ex>
<ex><fex name="Eventuality">My unease</fex> <t>persisted</t> for some time .</ex>
<ex><t>Persisting</t> decades past the end of the war , <fex name="Eventuality">the economic disaster</fex> was to shape the fate of central Europe .</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Sometimes a period of time, rather than an event or state is described.
<ex><fex name="Period">This difficult period</fex> lasted only a short while .</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The amount of time that the <fen>Eventuality</fen>, <fen>Period</fen>, or <fen>Entity</fen> lasts.
<ex>If the film <t>lasts</t> <fex name="Duration">more than one hour</fex> , I ca n't stay .</ex></def-root>
<def-root>An item which is metonymically related to an <fen>Eventuality</fen>. Some common eventualities that are metonymically entailed are the effect of the entity in its capacity as an instrument and the existence of the entity.
<ex><fex name="Entity">The anesthesia</fex> <t>lasted</t> four hours .</ex>
<ex><fex name="Entity">You</fex> would n't <t>last</t> five minutes !</ex></def-root>
<def-root>An individual that deploys a resource to receive a benefit. The construction that introduces this FE is idiosyncratic, combining with <ment>last</ment> (in this frame), <ment>cost</ment>, and <ment>take</ment>--and more marginally <ment>see</ment> (in "saw me through the winter") and <ment>keep</ment> (in "It 'll keep me for a while .") In this frame, the resource maps onto the <fen>Entity</fen>, and the benefit is the <fen>Eventuality</fen>.
<ex>A gallon of water wo n't <t>last</t> <fex name="User">us</fex> more than a few days .</ex></def-root>
Relation
Duration_scenario
FN: have a duration or period of relevance of
FN: (of an undesirable thing) have a duration of
FN: (of an event) lasting (the specified duration).