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Going_back_on_a_commitment [agentive]
A Protagonist has made a Commitment but does not honor it, thereby doing harm to an Affected_party.
My buddy Tom's girlfriend backed out of going to the show with me.
However, the employer|pro then backed out of that statement and did not pay the STD!
The government had reneged on promises to give them land.
When she and her family|pro went back on their police statement|com in the Vadodara court|pla in May 2003, it stirred a huge controversy.
My buddy Tom's girlfriend backed out of going to the show with me.
However, the employer|pro then backed out of that statement and did not pay the STD!
The government had reneged on promises to give them land.
When she and her family|pro went back on their police statement|com in the Vadodara court|pla in May 2003, it stirred a huge controversy.
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- #1566
- Entry
- frm_going_back_on_a_commitment
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Going_back_on_a_commitment (fn_1.7_2023)
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- Going_back_on_a_commitment
Core Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Affected_party |
The individual or group to whom the Protagonist had made the Commitment and who is negatively affected by the Protagonist's not honoring the Commitment.
Two people backed out on me|aff a few days earlier. |
category
sentient
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| Commitment |
An expression of the commitment that the Protagonist has taken on earlier and which they fail to follow through on.
It appears that Schwarzenegger will renege on an agreement he made with teachers|com. |
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| Protagonist |
The Protagonist is the person who has committed themselves to do something and later does not follow through on it.
The human rights situation is infinitely better now than under the Taliban, but the Bush administration|pro has reneged on its pledge of a new Marshall Plan. |
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sentient
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes
CoreSet
Affected_party
Commitment
Peripheral Frame Elements (6)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Degree |
How much the Protagonist goes back on their Commitment.
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| Manner |
Any description of the event (or state) which is not covered by more specific FEs, secondary effects (quietly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way).It may also indicate salient characteristics of the Protagonist that also affect the action (coldly).
They deliberately|man backed out of Government last November because they knew that the 'hard men' were not ready for it. |
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manner
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| Place |
The location in which the Protagonist fails to honor the commitment they made.
But his efforts came to nought when 18 of the 19 accused were bailed out as most witnesses backed out in court|pla. |
category
locative_relation
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| Re-encoding |
This FE presents the current frame as an integral part of a larger conceptualization expressed by another frame. The frame expressed by the target typically corresponds to a Means action within the frame expressed by the Re_encoding, but not necessarily.
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| Result |
The outcome of the Protagonist going back on a commitment.
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| Time |
The time period during which the Protagonist fails to honor their commitment.
When a host city backed out at the last minute and Russellville, Ark., landed the opportunity to host the Babe Ruth 16-Year-Old World Series. |
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time
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Event_description |
In general, this FE is used for phrases that describe the Protagonist's act of going back on their Commitment as a whole.
When Roy Jones cowardly|eve backed out of a fight with Heavyweight Buster Douglas, Toney again offered himself as a replacement. |
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| Explanation |
The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the Protagonist's failure to honor the Commitment logically follows.
The buyer backed out because the seller asked for more money|exp |
category
state_of_affairs
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| Iterations |
The frame element Iterations is used for expressions that indicate the number of times the Protagonist backed out on a commitment.
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)
Using
Lexical Units (3)
| LU | Type | Definition |
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| back out.v | — | COD: withdraw from a commitment |
| go back.v | — | COD: fail to keep (a promise). |
| renege.v | — | COD: go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract. |
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