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Forging [agentive]
An Agent produces a Forgery, an entity that they intend to pass off as a particular (instance of) a Standard. An instance of the Standard may actually exist that served as an original that is copied by the Agent, or the Standard exists only as an idea.
So who was it that faked the photo "showing" Jane Fonda and John Kerry with the Vietcong?
So who was it that faked the photo "showing" Jane Fonda and John Kerry with the Vietcong?
Properties
- ID
- #1661
- Entry
- frm_forging
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Forging (fn_1.7_2023)
- Domains
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- Types
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Forging
Core Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Agent |
The Agent is the person that creates a Forgery with the intent of passing it off as (an instance of) the Standard.
He|agt even faked her signature. |
category
sentient
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| Forgery |
The Forgery is the product that the Agent creates with the intent of passing it off as (an instance of) the Standard.
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| Standard |
The Standard is the actually existing or imagined (kind of) thing that the Agent wants to pass the Forgery off as.
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes
CoreSet
Forgery
Standard
Peripheral Frame Elements (9)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Degree |
category
degree
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| Fidelity |
The way in which the Forgery does or does not match the Standard.
What I don't know is why she tried to forge it half-size|fid. |
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| Instrument |
An entity manipulated by the Agent in order to produce the Forgery.
Fortunately, he forged it with a black pen|ins, which couriers never use. |
category
physical_entity
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| Manner |
Any description of the intentional act which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). In addition, it may indicate salient characteristics of an Agent that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
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category
manner
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| Means |
An act performed by the Agent that accomplishes the imitation.
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category
state_of_affairs
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| Place |
The location in which the Agent makes a Forgery.
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category
locative_relation
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| Purpose |
An action or state that the Agent intends to accomplish by producing the Forgery.
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category
state_of_affairs
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| Source |
An entity corresponding to the Standard which the Agent scrutinizes in order to copy.
He faked his travel documents from the ones his sister used last year|sou. |
category
source
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| Time |
The time at which the forgery takes place.
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category
time
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (1)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Explanation |
The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the forging event logically follows.
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category
state_of_affairs
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Frame-Frame Relations (2)
Inheritance
Using
Lexical Units (7)
| LU | Type | Definition |
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| counterfeit.v | — | FN: to create a forgery of an object, usually art or money, intending to pass it off as original |
| fake.n | — | COD: a person or thing that is not genuine. |
| fake.v | — | FN: to produce a forgery intending to pass it off as the original |
| falsify.v | — | FN: to produce a fake |
| forge.v | — | COD: produce a fraudulent copy or imitation of. |
| forgery.n | — | FN: the act of producing a fraudulent copy or imitation of (a banknote, work of art, etc.). |
| forgery.n | — | FN: a fraudulent copy or imitation of (a banknote, work of art, etc.). |
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