To obtain this kind of ambiguity, there are two conditions to be met (Inoue 1976): (i) a verb must be such that it does not necessarily select an agent (e.g., causative/inchoative verbs); (ii) there must be a "proximate" relation (e.g., inalienable possession relation) between the subject and the object.
(Perlmutter and Postal, 1984) Second, these verbs are variable in syntactic behavior, depending on the syntactic context where they appear.