The design of a situation involves optional modifications on different layers (Hengeveld 1989). A physical situation necessarily occurs in a place and at a time, whether or not these are coded. As a consequence, place and time adverbials require comparatively less coding than adverbials coding more distant circumstants.

is ambiguous because the object of the antipathy may be either the fact or the manner of John's driving.

Many languages have pro-adverbs coding place, time and manner, like English where, when, how - there, then, thus. Such basic adverbs are rare or non-existent for other circumstants, like beneficiary, instrument, cause etc.

Hengeveld, Kees 1989, “Layers and operators in Functional Grammar”. Journal of Linguistics 25: 127-157.