This is the animate or inanimate being that is directly affected by the action identified by the verb or whose natural properties, qualities, attributes or identity is expressed by the predicate. This typically is the subject of non-psychological process verbs or equational sentences without a copula. The case is marked by the Noun Phrase taking the suffix /-wĨ/.

The agent, the experiencer and the executor are in complementary distribution, i.e., they occur with different semantic classes of verbs. Whenever the sentence has one of these, it automatically becomes the subject. In the absence of either of these, the object becomes the subject of the sentence.