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Institutionalization [agentive]

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A Patient is committed to the care of a medical Facility by a proper Authority. Regardless of whether the Patient agrees or does not agree with their placement in the Facility, the Authority judges that it is in the best interest of the Patient or his environment that the Patient receive treatment in the Facility.


Ten years after Abraham Lincoln's assassination, a Chicago court|aut declared his 56-year-old widow Mary insane and committed her|pat to a mental institution|fac.

A pregnant woman|pat was hospitalized with gunshots to her
shoulder and abdomen|dep. CNI|aut INI|fac


Arberg issued a two-sentence statement saying Rehnquist|pat was
hospitalized for a fever|aff and undergoing tests. CNI|aut INI|fac


The hospitalization of the Saudi king|pat upset the skittish oil markets. INI|aut INI|fac

Properties

ID
#1620
Entry
frm_institutionalization
Namespace
Eventive.Agentive
FrameNet version
Institutionalization (fn_1.7_2023)
Domains
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Types
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Ontological type
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English name
Institutionalization

Core Frame Elements (3)

Core Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Authority
The Authority is the actor carrying out the institutionalization with proper legal authorization, either invested into them in general by the government or granted due to power of attorney over the Patient.

Goodrum then went to see a private doctor|aut who|aut hospitalized him.
category
sentient
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Facility
The facility where the Patient is taken for treatment.


Unfortunately for Mrs. Lincoln, her son, Robert, institutionalized her in the
Batavia Asylum|fac shortly after the visit to St. Charles.
category
goal
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Patient
The person who is committed to a facility with a view towards helping them mentally or physically.



Buffy's got this hospital phobia because her caring parents institutionalized
her|pat for a while before she moved to Sunnydale.
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Peripheral Frame Elements (6)

Peripheral Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Affliction
The condition exhibited by the Patient, which is deemed to merit institutionalization by the Authority.


Her parents institutionalized her for what was essentially typical bad adolescent behavior|aff.
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Duration_of_final_state
This FE identifies the length of the time period for which the Authority has placed the Patient in the Facility.

This time, physicians hospitalized him for more than a month|dur.
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duration
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Manner
Any description of the institutionalization event which is not covered by more specific FEs, including general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may also indicate salient characteristics of the Authority that affect the action (ruthlessly).


St Remy, of course, is most noted for being the place where Van Gogh committed
himself voluntarily|man to an asylum.
category
manner
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Means
An intentional action performed by the Authority that brings about the institutionalization of the Patient.

Without informing Volkobraun or her attorney of the court's decision, police
forcibly|Mns committed her to a psychiatric hospital.
category
state_of_affairs
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Place
The location in which the Facility is situated.

The widow of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. suffered a stroke on Wednesday, and was
hospitalized in Atlanta|pla.
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locative_relation
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Time
The time interval during which the institutionalization happens.

Later her mother became depressed and was institutionalized.
category
time
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (5)

Extra-thematic Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Depictive
This FE describes a participant of the institutionalization as being in some state during the action.

A man was hospitalized in stable condition|dep after he was mauled by a ?pet? bear.
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Explanation
The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the occurrence of the institutionalization event logically follows.
category
state_of_affairs
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Frequency
This FE marks the amount of times the Patient is committed to the Facility per unit of time.
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Particular_iteration
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.
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Purpose
The purpose of the institutionalization.

His squabbling parents would rather institutionalize him to rid themselves of their problem|pur.
category
state_of_affairs
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)

Using

Using relations
Uses
Cure
FE-FE

Lexical Units (8)

Lexical units of this frame
LU Type Definition
admission.n โ€” FN: registration and entry (into an institution).
admit.v โ€” FN: register and allow to enter and remain for some time.
commit.v โ€” FN: send to psychiatric hospital
commitment.n โ€” FN: the act of sending to a psychiatric hospital
hospitalization.n โ€” FN: the act of placing in a hospital for treatment
hospitalize.v โ€” FN: to place in a hospital for treatment
institutionalization.n โ€” FN: the act of placing in a residential institution.
institutionalize.v โ€” COD: place in a residential institution.
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