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Surviving [state]

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A Survivor manages to avoid being negatively affected, despite encountering a Dangerous_situation. The negative effect is most often death, destruction, or a metaphorical construal of one of these.

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#1792
Entry
frm_surviving
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State
FrameNet version
Surviving (fn_1.7_2023)
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Types
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Ontological type
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English name
Surviving

Core Frame Elements (2)

Core Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Dangerous_situation
The Dangerous_situation is one in which people are likely or expected to be negatively affected.
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Survivor
The Survivor lives through a Dangerous_situation.
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Peripheral Frame Elements (5)

Peripheral Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Degree
This FE identifies the Degree to which the Survivor survives.

Growing up in a rough section of the Bronx, New York, Bobby barely|deg survived several serious bouts of rheumatic fever that left him with a damaged heart.
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Depictive
Depictive is a description of the Survivor, during or after the Dangerous_situation.

He survived the crash with minor injuries.
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Means
An action performed by the Survivor that enables them to live throug hthe Dangerous_situation.

They survived the devastation by using age-old early warning systems|mea.
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Place
The location where the Survivor (primarily) lives during the Dangerous_situation.
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locative_relation
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Time
The time at which the surviving takes place.

Last year|tim, Florida residents survived the devastating triple punch of Hurricanes Frances, Ivan and Jeanne,
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Frame-Frame Relations (2)

Inheritance

Inheritance relations
Inherits from
Success_or_failure
FE-FE

Using

Using relations
Uses
Killing
FE-FE

Lexical Units (5)

Lexical units of this frame
LU Type Definition
live.v โ€” FN: continue to live after a traumatic situation with minimal change
ride out.v โ€” COD: come safely through something.
survival.n โ€” FN: the state of being alive or existing
survive.v โ€” COD: continue to live or exist in spite of (an accident or ordeal).
weather.v โ€” COD: come safely through.
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