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Commerce_buy [agentive]
These are words describing a basic commercial transaction involving a Buyer and a Seller exchanging Money and Goods, taking the perspective of the Buyer. The words vary individually in the patterns of frame element realization they allow. For example, the typical pattern for the verb BUY:
Buyer buys Goods from Seller for Money.
Abby bought a car from Robin for $5,000.
Buyer buys Goods from Seller for Money.
Abby bought a car from Robin for $5,000.
Properties
- ID
- #171
- Entry
- frm_commerce_buy
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Commerce_buy (fn_1.7_2023)
- Domains
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- Types
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Commerce_buy
Core Frame Elements (2)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buyer |
The Buyer wants the Goods and offers Money to a Seller in exchange for them.
Jess bought a coat. Lee bought a textbook from Abby. |
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| Goods |
The FE Goods is anything (including labor or time, for example) which is exchanged for Money in a transaction.
Only one winner purchased the paintings|Gds |
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Peripheral Frame Elements (9)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manner |
Any description of the purchasing event 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 Buyer that affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
She gleefully bought the rock. |
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manner
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| Means |
The Means by which a commercial transaction occurs.
Will they allow you to purchase by check|Mns? |
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state_of_affairs
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| Money |
Money is the thing given in exchange for Goods in a transaction.
Sam bought the car for $12,000. |
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| Place |
Where the event takes place.
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locative_relation
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| Purpose |
The Purpose for which an intentional act is performed.
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state_of_affairs
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| Rate |
In some cases, price or payment is described per unit of Goods.
Jon bought some expensive apples at five dollars a pound! |
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| Seller |
The Seller has possession of the Goods and exchanges them for Money from a Buyer.
Most of my audio equipment, I purchased from a department store near my apartment. |
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source
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— |
| Time |
When the event occurs.
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time
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| Unit |
This FE is any unit in which goods or services can be measured.
Generally, it occurs in a by-PP. Lee buys potatoes by the pound. |
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (4)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Explanation |
The Explanation for which an event occurs.
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state_of_affairs
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| Imposed_purpose |
The Buyer's intended purpose for the Goods.
I purchased the calculatorfor easier calculation of my debts. |
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| Period_of_iterations |
The length of time from when the commerce event began to be repeated to when it stopped.
I have been buying from him for over 10 years|iter. |
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| Recipient |
The individual intended by the Buyer to receive the Goods.
You bought me three pairs already! |
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Frame-Frame Relations (5)
Inheritance
Perspective
Using
Lexical Units (7)
| LU | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| buy.n | — | FN: the Goods that have been bought |
| buy.v | — | COD: obtain in exchange for payment |
| buyer.n | — | FN: a person or company who purchases something |
| client.n | — | FN: The person paying for services (or in some cases, goods). This term is used in preference to customer or buyer in transactions for services, especially in situations where the providers are lawyers, financial advisors, architects, agents for performers and professional atheletes, etc. |
| purchase.n | — | COD: the action of buying. |
| purchase.v | — | COD: buy |
| purchaser.n | — | FN: a person or company who buys something |
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