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People_by_morality [entity]

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This frame contains general words for Individuals, i.e. humans, whose specific acts or general behavior is evaluated against standards of morality or rightness. The Person may have an Age, Descriptor, Origin, Persistent_characteristic, or Ethnicity.

Columbus: Was he|per a Hero or a Villain?
There are endless disputes about this sort of thing, both in and out of the courts, because wrongdoers will say and do anything to avoid getting punished.
There are endless disputes about this sort of thing, both in and out of the courts,
because wrongdoers|per will say and do anything to avoid getting punished.

Properties

ID
#1102
Entry
frm_people_by_morality
Namespace
Entity
FrameNet version
People_by_morality (fn_1.7_2023)
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English name
People_by_morality

Core Frame Elements (1)

Core Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Person
The Person is the human being.
category
human
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Peripheral Frame Elements (7)

Peripheral Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Age
The Age is the length of time the Person has been alive.

At that time, I was the teenage miscreant who was illegally accessing federal computers.
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Context_of_acquaintance
An expression indicating the context with which the Person is associated.

Apparently, another miscreant from the same radio station|coa did the same thing to
Robert Esche on Wednesday morning, only it was at 5 am
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Descriptor
The Descriptor is a temporary condition of the Person.
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Ethnicity
The Ethnicity is the religious, racial, national, socio-economic or cultural group to which the Person belongs.

Imagine the photo ops when the Afghan|Eth evildoers lay down their arms at your feet.
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Field
A domain of activity in which the Person exhibits behavior on which they are judged in terms of its morality.

After the recent wave of corporate governance shenanigans and the backlash against financial|fie wrongdoers, observers say they are witnessing the first buds of a ?greener? investment focus among professional and individual investors.
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Origin
The Origin is the place where the Person was born or lived a salient part of her or his life.

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Persistent_characteristic
The Persistent_characteristic is a physiological characteristic or personality trait of the Person which is concieved of as persisting over time.


What you'd started writing was an action story with a funny|Pers_char villain and a whole lot of hijinks.
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Frame-Frame Relations (2)

Inheritance

Inheritance relations
Inherits from
People
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Using

Using relations

Lexical Units (13)

Lexical units of this frame
LU Type Definition
bad apple.n โ€” COD: a corrupt person in a group, likely to have a detrimental influence on the others
degenerate.n โ€” COD: a morally degenerate person.
delinquent.n โ€” FN: a (typically young) person showing or characterized by a tendency to commit crime
evildoer.n โ€” COD: a person who commits evil deeds
fink.n โ€” COD: an unpleasant or contemptible person.
low life.n โ€” FN: a person engaged in disreputable or criminal activities
malefactor.n โ€” COD: a person who commits a crime or some other wrong.
miscreant.n โ€” COD: a person who behaves badly or unlawfully
reprobate.n โ€” COD: an unprincipled person.
saint.n โ€” COD: a very virtuous person
sinner.n โ€” COD: a person who sins
villain.n โ€” COD: a wicked person or a person guilty of a crime.
wrongdoer.n โ€” FN: a person that does wrong
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