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Hiring [agentive]
An Employer hires an Employee, promising the Employee a certain Compensation in exchange for the performance of a job. The job may be described either in terms of a Task or a Position. In some cases, the Employee FE will also indicate the Position (see fourth example below).
John|Empee was hired to clean up the file system.
IBM|Emper hired Gates|Empee as chief janitor|Posit.
I|Empee was retained at $500 an hour|Compense.
The A's|Emper signed a new third baseman|Empee for $30M|Compense.
The same sentence (above) should also have the FE Position on the second layer:
The A's signed a new third baseman|Posit for $30M.
John|Empee was hired to clean up the file system.
IBM|Emper hired Gates|Empee as chief janitor|Posit.
I|Empee was retained at $500 an hour|Compense.
The A's|Emper signed a new third baseman|Empee for $30M|Compense.
The same sentence (above) should also have the FE Position on the second layer:
The A's signed a new third baseman|Posit for $30M.
Properties
- ID
- #322
- Entry
- frm_hiring
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Hiring (fn_1.7_2023)
- Domains
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- Types
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Hiring
Core Frame Elements (5)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Employee |
The person whom the Employer takes on as an Employee, obligating them to perform some Task in order to receive Compensation.
I was just hired yesterday! |
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| Employer |
The person (or institution) that takes on an Employee, giving them Compensation in return for the performance of an assigned Task.
Last month, IBM|Emper hired Mike Zisman to head up its storage software group. |
category
sentient
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| Field |
The Field that the Employee is going to work in for their Employer.
It's not easy to get hired in academia. |
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| Position |
The label given to a particular type of employment.
Look, I wasn't hired as your waitress|Posit! |
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| Task |
The action that the Employee is taken on by the Employer to do.
I was hired just to empty the trash cans. |
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes
CoreSet
Field
Position
Task
Peripheral Frame Elements (8)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation |
The Compensation is the payment that the Employee is set to receive for performing an assigned Task.
They fired our management, hired him for 20% more|Compense and gave him a free office to set up his own company. |
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| Contract_basis |
The Contract_basis is the condition of employment with respect to permanency, hours per time period or payment arrangements.
She couldn't figure it out but suggested that I'd be good for the job, so they hired me part time|cb at first. |
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| Instrument |
An entity that the Employer uses to hire the Employee.
The congressman hired him with personal funds as an aide. |
category
physical_entity
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| Manner |
This FE identifies the Manner in which an Employer hires an Employee.
The three young men were given medals and hastily commissioned. |
category
manner
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| Means |
An action by the Employer whereby the hire is brought about.
The manager hired me with a handshake. |
category
state_of_affairs
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| Place |
This FE identifies the place where the Employer hires the Employee.
Actually, he hired me in a bordello. |
category
locative_relation
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| Purpose |
This FE identifies the Purpose for which an Employer hires the Employee.
John hired her to make his wife jealous|Purp. |
category
state_of_affairs
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| Time |
This FE identifies the Time when an Employer hires the Employee.
Guess who just got hired today! |
category
time
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (1)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Period_of_iterations |
The length of time from when the hiring event began to be repeated to when it stopped.
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Frame-Frame Relations (4)
Inheritance
Perspective
Precedes
SubFrame
Lexical Units (12)
| LU | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| commission.n | — | FN: act of commissioning |
| commission.v | — | COD: order or authorize (someone) to do or produce something. |
| contract.v | — | FN: assign a job by contract. |
| give job.x | — | FN: take somebody on as an employee |
| hire.n | — | COD: the action of hiring. |
| hire.v | — | COD: employ for wages. |
| retain.v | — | COD: keep engaged in one's service. |
| sign on.v | — | FN: to hire someone for a position of employment |
| sign up.v | — | FN: engage someone to work by signing a contract. |
| sign.v | — | FN: to hire someone |
| subcontract.v | — | FN: hire to render services for another contract. |
| take on.v | — | FN: hire |
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