Frame Report

This FE identifies the name of the ongoing Activity in which an Agent engages.

He is always active demolishing the painted figures of men's faith and then is astonished to find the faith still there clothed in new figure.

The Agent engages in an ongoing Activity.


He was active for six decades as a painter, graphic designer and theorist of art and design.

This FE identifies the role filled by the Agent which is saliently associated with an Activity.

Jacques Fuller has been active as a sculptor|rol in Bloemfontein for almost two decades.

An entity acted upon by the Agent.

As many as 324 companies' stocks|sal were active across the board.

The Degree to which the Agent or Salient_entity is active.

Mick was an extremely active volunteer for the Air Force IT Day committee.

This FE identifies the amount of Time for which an Activity is ongoing.

Upon his release from federal detention in 1947 he joined the IWW and has remained
active for five decades|Dur as a graphic artist, poet, and advisor.

Any description of the Activity which is not covered by more specific FEs, including epistemic modification (probably, presumably, mysteriously), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may indicate salient characteristics of an Agent that affect the action (presumptuously, deliberately).

The Government was deliberately inactive in respect of Maori. language teacher training and teaching.

This FE identifies the Place where the Activity is pursued.

He is retired from Whirlpool Corp. in Clyde and is active at the YMCA.

This FE identifies the Purpose for which an Agent is engaged in an ongoing Activity.

Throughout her life, Bertha was active in civic organizations in order to establish chiropractics in the public eye|pur.

This FE identifies the Time when the Activity is pursued.

Commercial selling was active yesterday but a lack of interest allowed the market to push sharply higher into the mid-session.

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 FE describes a participant of the state of affairs introduced by the target as being in some state during the action. The depicted state does not necessarily or usually facilitate or cause the state of affairs reported by the target.

In general, this FE is used for phrases that describe the clause of the target as a whole. There are two somewhat distinct subgroups of sentence modifiers that cover this function.

The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically follows. This often means that the Explanation causes the target's proposition, but not in all cases.

This frame element is defined as the number of times an event occurs per some unit of time. A Frequency expression answers the question how often. It is to be distinguished from Iterations, which pertains simply to the number of times an event occurs-Iteration expressions answer the question how many times.

The frame element Iterations is used for expressions that indicate the number of times an event or state (of the kind denoted by the target in its clause) has taken place or held.