Frame Report

The physical or abstract setting in which the Message is conveyed.

The report emphasized that Iraq's unwillingness to cooperate represents a serious problem for the progress of this work.

The proposition whose denotation the Speaker presents as important.

He emphasized to me that my words will go down in history and that this poem has made a difference in our world.

The person who uses language in the written or spoken modality to convey a Message to another person.

Juhl emphasized the importance of UPMC System investments, stating that their contribution to the school's funds had tripled in recent years.

The Addressee is the audience to which the Speaker communicates the Message.

Pastor Host emphasized to him|Add that as you study a passage, a theme develops from the text.

The degree of importance that the Speaker conveys the Message's denotation as having.

The need to understand design is often heavily|deg stressed during conversations or articles about desktop publishing .

Any description of the event (or state) which is not covered by more specific FEs, in particular secondary effects (loudly), general descriptions comparing events (the same way), and salient characteristics of an Agent that also affect the action (deliberately, eagerly, carefully).


You will note above that I have deliberately stressed our ability as mental health professional to make a determination of current suicide risk.

The Means by which the Speaker communicates the importance of the state of affairs denoted by the Message.

Mr. Rose stressed this by pointing out that the latest offender had been fined
over $5000|Mns.

The location where the Speaker delivers the Message.

Putin stressed in Beijing|pla that Russia does not favor independence for Taiwan.

The time at which the Speaker communicates a Message.


However, Cockerill stressed last week that he had had many meetings about these obvious synergies and that he had pursued these aggressively.

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.

In general, this FE is used for phrases that describe the clause of the target as a whole.

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.

The frame element Iterations is used for expressions that indicate the number of times the Speaker conveys a Message whose denotation they present as an important fact to be aware of.

During Chen's telephone call with Soong, Hsieh said at a press conference, Soong
emphasized multiple times his commitment to the 10-point consensus.

Expressions marked with this extra-thematic FE modify a non-iterative use of the target, and indicate that it is conceived as embedded within an iterated series of similar events or states. In addition, most expressions of Particular_iteration indicate which instance of the series is being referred to.

This FE is minimally distinct from Duration and Duration_of final_state in that the clause described is conveyed to be iterative. Period_of_iterations can co-occur with either the peripheral FE Duration or the extra-thematic FE Duration_of_final_state (although these cannot occur together).