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Touring [agentive]
A Tourist experiences an Attraction, a location with a unique history or other societally recognized individual character, with the goal of seeing and learning about it. Typically, the Attraction has a source of information about the Attraction--a guide, pamphlets, or displays.
We toured the Grand Canyon.
We toured the Grand Canyon.
Properties
- ID
- #1907
- Entry
- frm_touring
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Touring (fn_1.7_2023)
- Domains
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- Types
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Touring
Core Frame Elements (2)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Attraction |
The societally-recognized unique location that the Tourist experiences.
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category
location
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— |
| Tourist |
The individual that is seeking an experience at an Attraction.
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category
sentient
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— |
Peripheral Frame Elements (6)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration |
The amount of time the touring activity lasts.
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category
duration
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— |
| Manner |
Any description of the details of the event in terms of how they compare to other events (the same way) or in terms of how the state of the Tourist affects them (happily, obliviously).
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category
manner
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— |
| Means |
The Means indicates a method the Tourist is using to participate in a tour.
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category
state_of_affairs
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| Place |
The location where the touring takes place.
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category
locative_relation
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— |
| Purpose |
Some action that the Tourist is trying to accomplish with touring. This is generally (at a minimum) for the purposes of entertainment and learning.
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category
state_of_affairs
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| Time |
The time that the touring takes place.
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category
time
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— |
Extra-thematic Frame Elements (4)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Co-participant |
The Co-participant is an entity that participates in a coordinated way in the touring event with the Tourist.
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category
sentient
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— |
| Depictive |
The state of the Tourist or the Attraction during the tour.
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| Ground |
The perceptual background against which the Attraction is experienced by the Tourist.
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| Particular_iteration |
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 similar events or states.
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Frame-Frame Relations (2)
Inheritance
Using
Lexical Units (9)
| LU | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| do.v | — | FN: see/travel around (a place). |
| see.v | — | FN: visit and experience (a place) |
| sight seer.n | — | FN: a tourist; one who sees the sights of a tourist location. |
| sight-see.v | — | FN: to visit tourist locations and landmarks |
| sights.n | — | COD: places of interest to tourists and other visitors. |
| tour.n | — | COD: a journey for pleasure in which several different places are visited. |
| tour.v | — | FN: to leisurely visit a location |
| tourism.n | — | FN: peoples visiting a foreign land for pleasure and with the intention of becoming more aquainted with the particularities of the area. |
| tourist.n | — | COD: a person who travels for pleasure. |
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