Frame Report

This is the person who made the Proposal to the Speaker and to whom the Speaker communicates their response. This frame element stands in for the Proposal and is only licensed when the Proposal can be understood from the context.

But senior SLN officials had rebuffed the man who is ever so willing to please
the guerrillas|int.

The Proposal is the prior communication or action to which a response is given.

Dr. Carolyn Herrington has accepted our offer to become Dean of the College of Education|pro .

The Speaker is the person who communicates the reply or response.

Iran on Saturday rejected Europe's proposal for ending the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program.

Any description of the 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 indicate salient characteristics of the Speaker that affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly).

Moreover, as with Surrey, myths have proliferated, such as that Oxford cruelly|Manr rejected his wife in 1576.

This FE identifies the Means by the Speaker responds to the Proposal . Others, I would say have actually turned me down by not replying and not responding|Mns.

As with Medium in other Communication frames, the physical entity or channel used to communicate can be expressed, usually as a PP Complement headed by "on" or "in".

The location in which the Speaker makes a verbal response.


Legislation that would have required smaller school districts to share administrators has been rebuffed repeatedly in the Oklahoma House of Representatives|pla.

An action that the Speaker intends to accomplish by making a verbal response.

He was asked to join the National Assembly ruling party, but repeatedly turned
them down in order to continue his work as a journalist|pur.

Role denotes the capacity in which the Interlocutor is judged.

The Policy Committee had
rejected her as a candidate for chronic dialysis|rol because of her young age. .

The time interval during which the Speaker makes their verbal response.

This must make yesterday's|tim Taliban rebuff all the more wounding.

Depictive phrase describing the Speaker.


She turned it down, unaware she would some day become a member|Depict.

The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the success or failure logically follows. This often means that the Explanation causes the success or failure, but not in all cases.

The Group is the set of people within which the Respond_to_proposal is occuring.

The response may be prompted by either some outside phenomenon or occurrence, or by an Internal_cause, the Speaker mental or emotional state.

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.

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 response events.