Frame Report

An expression of the commitment of the Parties .

The US and Russia have an agreement to share early warning data on missile launches|obl.

The group of individuals portrayed as equally involved in having an agreement.

The US and Russia|pars have an agreement to cooperate in destroying surplus portable anti-aircraft missiles.

The individual or individuals that form the more prominent (i.e. agentive) party of the agreement, as compared with Party_2. That is, Party_1 is generally encoded as the External Argument of verbs, and peripheral FEs that do not make reference to the event itself generally make reference to Party_1. Thus Manner is construed to be that of Party_1, not necessarily that of Party_2 or the group of Parties as a whole.

AOL 's|par1 agreement with the ACLU will soon expire , and renogotiation is not a real possibility .

The semantically (and grammatically) less prominent participant (or group of participants) in the agreement. It is generally encoded within a prepositional phrase (e.g. headed by with).

Mozilla Foundation now has a bindingagreement with America Online|par2.

Topic is a description of the domain covered by the agreement.

Some types of alloy steel have been covered in the expiring trade|top agreement.

Any description of the agreement not specified by the other FEs, including particularly salient characteristics of the parties.

As with other frames in the Communication domain, the Medium of communication may be expressed. Medium is the physical entity or channel used to record or negotiate the Obligation.


The parties have a written|med agreement to arbitrate disputes arising in connection with the contract.

This FE identifies the Place where an agreement was made.

The Kyoto|pla treaty has so far been relatively ineffectual.

This FE identifies the Time when the agreement was made.

The missile agreement of 1952|tim was still in force, however.

Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the event itself and any of its participants.

This frame element selects some gradable attribute and modifies the expected value for it.

This FE describes a characteristic or description of the agreement_on_action.

Duration denotes the length of time from the beginning of a continuous situation (the one denoted by the target) to its end. In many cases, the continuous situation is a dynamic action which is ongoing, while in others it is simply an undifferentiated state.