A nominal bears the locatum role if it serves to express the object whose °location or °path of motion is described relative to a °spatial ground.
In a predlocative clause, one can say that the locatum is a "predlocatum", and in an existential clause, one can say that the locatum is an "existent".
figure (SEM) = the object in a spatial scene whose location or path of motion is being described relative to a ground. Example: in Meagan ran into the cave, Meagan is the figure, and her path of motion is described relative to the location of the cave. (Sections 7.3.1, 14.5)