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Prevarication [agentive]
A Speaker communicates about a Topic in such a way as to mislead an Addressee, either by telling outright lies or by presenting a message in a misleading form.
I lied to you about your Christmas present.
I lied to you about your Christmas present.
Properties
- ID
- #287
- Entry
- frm_prevarication
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Prevarication (fn_1.7_2023)
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Prevarication
Core Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Addressee |
The person that receives a Message from the Speaker.
You're kidding me! Satan lies to everyone, including himself. |
category
sentient
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| Speaker |
The person who uses language in the written or spoken modality to convey a deceptive Message to the Addressee.
Politicians do nothing but tell lies about money. |
category
sentient
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| Topic |
Topic is the entity to which the proposition or propositions relate, that they are about.
You deceived me about the location of the diamonds. |
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Peripheral Frame Elements (7)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Degree |
The extent to which the Speaker deceives the Addressee about the Topic.
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| Duration |
The length of Time that the Speaker spends on the Topic.
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| Frequency |
This FE describes how often the Speaker discusses the Topic with the Addressee.
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| Means |
The (communicative) action performed by the Speaker in order to deceive the Addressee.
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| Place |
The location at which the deception occurs.
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| Purpose |
The goal of the Speaker's deceit of the Addressee
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| Time |
The time at which the deception occurs.
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Frame-Frame Relations (2)
Using
Lexical Units (26)
| LU | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| bullshit artist.n | — | FN: a person known to deceive. |
| bullshit.v | — | COD: talk nonsense in an attempt to deceive. |
| deceive.v | — | COD: deliberately mislead or misrepresent the truth to. |
| deception.n | — | COD: the action of deceiving. |
| deceptive.a | — | FN: to not be revealing the truth |
| dissemble.v | — | COD: hide or disguise one's true motives or feelings. |
| dissembler.n | — | FN: one who misrepresents him or herself. |
| equivocate.v | — | COD: use ambiguous or evasive language. |
| equivocation.n | — | FN: act of producing ambiguous or evasive language. |
| fib.n | — | COD: 1. a trivial lie. |
| fib.v | — | COD: tell a fib. |
| fool.v | — | COD: trick, deceive, or dupe. |
| hoodwink.v | — | COD: deceive or trick. |
| joke.v | — | FN: say something untrue to be funny. |
| kid.v | — | FN: deceive playfully |
| lie.n | — | COD: an intentionally false statement |
| lie.v | — | COD: tell a lie or lies |
| mislead.v | — | COD: cause to have a wrong impression about someone or something. |
| misrepresent.v | — | COD: give a false or misleading account of. |
| misrepresentation.n | — | FN: act of deception or misleading |
| prevaricate.v | — | COD: speak or act evasively. |
| prevarication.n | — | FN: act of speaking evasively |
| pull leg.x | — | COD: deceive someone playfully |
| pull the wool over eyes.x | — | FN: to deceive |
| shit.v | — | FN: jokingly deceive. |
| tell.v | — | FN: communicate the truth, a lie, etc (support only) |
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