Frame Report

An Entity ends up in a Final_category, Final_situation, or Final_quality which it was not in before. Some members of the frame (e.g. grow.v) tend to emphasize a gradual change, while most members of the frame do not indicate whether a change is gradual or not.

Why I became an Emacs user

I|ent left the ministry and became an atheist.

Surprisingly, various veteran organizations also turned vehemently antiwar.

Over the years she|ent grew to hate him.

This frame should be compared to Undergo_change. Undergo_change is different in that it much more emphasizes the difference between the pre- and post-states of the Entity. This shows up both in Undergo_change's increased occurrence with Initial_category and Initial_state (change from red to blue) and in its increased occurrence with Final_category (changed into a toad) rather than Final_situation or Final_quality (?changed to red vs. got/turned red). In addition, when Undergo_change occurs with the Final_category frame element, it presents a deep difference between the Initial_category and the Final_category, so that it is humorous to say 'she turned into a Republican', because it presents this as a fundamental change of identity.

Compare the previous sentence to 'she became a Republican', which is quite normal (albeit in a different frame). In a less humorous example, someone can 'turn into a Mac user', strongly implying that they no longer use their former operating system, while if they 'become a Mac user', the meaning is either as a replacement of other OS-s or potentially as an addition to the use of other OS-s.