Frame Report

The Complainer is the sentient entity that produces the Complaint (whether spoken or written).


Peter has moaned about it on another thread but it sure must be nice for him to wallow
again.

The lamentable situation that the Complainer is communicating to the Addressee.

One observer groused that Skagway was "little better than hell on earth."|com

Medium is the physical entity or channel used by the Complainer to transmit the Complaint.


I don't mean to discount any of what he has bitched about in his article, because most of his points are actually valid.

The Topic is the subject matter to which the Complaint pertains.

Ferdinand attended the reception at the city hall and complained vociferously about his reception at the city.

The Addressee is the person to whom the Complaint is communicated.

Fresh out of prison, Martin whinged to Sonia|Add about his life.

Degree selects some gradable attribute and modifies the expected value for it.

Any description of the complaining event (or state) which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may also indicate salient characteristics of the Complainer that affect the action (presumptuously, bitterly, vociferoursly ).

The crowd complained vociferously|Manr when the other aldermen met Brewer?s proposal with silence.

An act whereby the Complainer makes a complaint.


These people shouldn't be belly-aching about it by accusing the downfall of their candidate because it was all "whiteys" fault|Mns!

The Occasion is the reason a public statement is given.

This FE specifies the location where the complaining takes place.


Guest Relations actually refunded the full eighty-five dollar price of the event to many event attendees who complained at City Hall.

The Time when the complaint is made.

Now yesterday I pissed and moaned about Rolling Stone magazines choice for the number 1 song of all time.

The state of the Complainer while making the Complaint.


Pacing the floor at the American Club and getting increasingly drunk|Dep, he lamented, "I want to evacuate but my country won't let me leave."

Denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically followes. This often means that the Explanation causes the complaint, but not in all cases. In particular, there are cases when the connection is a bit weaker than normal for causation. In these instances, cause is mediated by some actor responding in a complex way to the situation. Such cases are not paraphrasable in the language of direct causation.

Frequency is defined as the number of times an event occurs per some unit of time.


Robert always|fre complains to the neighbor whose children step on his flowers and ride bikes on his lawn.

The emotional or physical state of the Complainer that leads to their complaining.

'Oooh,' he moaned in frustration.

Expressions marked with this extra-thematic FE indicate that the particular complaining event referred to is conceived as embedded within an iterated series of similar events or states. Most expressions of Particular_iteration indicate which instance of the series is being referred to.

This is the third|par complaint of a similar nature filed by Naber against CN.

An event or state which results from the complaining.