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Destroying [agentive]
A Destroyer (a conscious entity) or Cause (an event, or an entity involved in such an event) affects the Patient negatively so that the Patient no longer exists. An asteroid obliterated the dinosaurs.
Properties
- ID
- #417
- Entry
- frm_destroying
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Destroying (fn_1.7_2023)
- Domains
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Destroying
Core Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Cause |
The event or entity which is responsible for the destruction of the Patient. The subsequent explosions leveled most downtown office buildings. Tornados vaporized this town a few decades back.
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| Destroyer |
The conscious entity, generally a person, that performs the intentional action that results in the Patient's destruction. Who|Agt can unmake the ring?
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category
sentient
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| Patient |
The entity which is destroyed by the Destroyer. Who can unmake the ring?
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes
Excludes
Cause
Destroyer
Means
Peripheral Frame Elements (7)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Degree |
The degree to which the destruction is completed.
I destroyed all signs of our presence completely|Degr. |
category
degree
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| Instrument |
An entity directed by the Destroyer that interacts with a Patient to accomplish the Patient's destruction.
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category
physical_entity
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| Manner |
Any description of the process of destruction which is not covered by more specific FEs, including epistemic modification (probably, presumably, mysteriously), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may also indicate salient characteristics of the Destroyer that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
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category
manner
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| Means |
An intentional action performed by the Destroyer that accomplishes the destruction.
Samptu obliterated the land of Abde with a great flood|Mns, leaving only the sea. |
category
state_of_affairs
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| Medium |
Medium expresses the Medium in which the Patient is destroyed by the Cause or Destroyer. This FE is generally used in Metaphorical uses of this frame. West demolished Kraft's arguments in his most recent essay|Med.
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| Place |
This FE identifies the place where the Destroyer destroys the Patient.
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category
locative_relation
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| Time |
This FE identifies the time when the Destroyer destroys the Patient.
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category
time
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (8)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Containing_event |
This FE denotes an event that occurs or state of affairs that holds at a time that includes the time during which the event or state of affairs reported by the target occurs and of which it is taken to be a part.
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| Depictive |
This FE describes a participant of the state of affairs introduced by the target as being in some state during the action.
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| Explanation |
A state of affairs that the Destroyer is responding to in destroying the Undergoer.
He razed the goddess's temple out of sheer anger. |
category
state_of_affairs
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| Frequency |
How often the Cause or Destroyer destroys the Patient.
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| Purpose |
This FE identifies the purpose for which a Destroyer causes the destruction of the Patient. We laid waste to Hattusas to subjugate them, not to vex them|Purp.
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category
state_of_affairs
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| Result |
This FE identifies the Result of an event on the Patient. This FE is very rare in this frame, and since the Patient is destroyed by this process, the Result is generally constrained to indicate the Patient 's resulting inexistence. All of the buildings had been razed to nothing.
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| Role |
The category in which the Patient is destroyed.
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| Subregion |
The part of the Patient which is directly affected by the destruction. The village was devastated from the north end to the banks of the Neva|Subr.
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category
locative_relation
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Frame-Frame Relations (2)
Inheritance
Using
Lexical Units (22)
| LU | Type | Definition |
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| annihilate.v | — | COD: destroy utterly. |
| annihilation.n | — | FN: to destroy completely |
| blast.v | — | FN: destroy with an explosion or similar violent means. |
| blow up.v | — | FN: to destroy with explosives |
| demolish.v | — | FN: destroy a fixed structure by crushing |
| demolition.n | — | FN: the act of destroying or dismantling, esp. of buildings |
| destroy.v | — | FN: to exert force so as to cause something to cease to exist |
| destruction.n | — | FN: an event of destroying |
| destructive.a | — | COD: causing destruction. |
| devastate.v | — | COD: destroy or ruin. |
| devastation.n | — | FN: the destruction of large parts of "Floods caused the devastation of most of the fall crops." |
| dismantle.v | — | COD: take to pieces. |
| dismantlement.n | — | FN: the act of taking something apart. |
| lay waste.v | — | FN: the deliberate destruction of buildings, farms, etc., as by an army or force of nature |
| level.v | — | COD: demolish (a building or town). |
| obliterate.v | — | COD: destroy utterly; wipe out. |
| obliteration.n | — | FN: the complete destruction of something so that nothing can be found where it once was |
| raze.v | — | FN: to destroy (buildings, etc.), esp. by fire |
| ruin.v | — | FN: A Destroyer causes an Undergoer to become unusable. |
| take out.v | — | FN: incapacitate and destroy. |
| unmake.v | — | FN: to undo the action of making (as of a law); to destroy the structure of something |
| vaporize.v | — | FN: destroy utterly (as if) by turning into vapor. |
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