Frame Report

This FE marks expressions that indicate an event or state that is predicted to occur or hold at a future time. A single Eventuality may be expressed discontinuously in a raising construction. This FE is also used for expressions that denote entities with variable attributes about which the Speaker makes predictions.

Predicting the weather is risky business.
Predicting the numbers of disabled elderly into the future is problematic as it depends upon the projection forward of current patterns of disability .
Wangforecasts a 9 per cent increase in state revenue
The European market is forecast to grow 18.1%.

The Medium is the physical entity or channel used by the Speaker to transmit the prediction.

The events that would occur over the next several years had been predicted in the Bible|med.

Her texts|med predict the future.

The Speaker makes a prediction.

The institute forecast an increase in leisure spending of 15 per cent.

The Topic is the subject matter to which the prediction pertains. It is normally expressed as a PP Complement headed by about.

This FE indicates the Accuracy of the prediction.
Compary president Randall Johnson predicted correctly that a major reworking of infrastructure would be necessary.
It is hard to forecast with a high degree of certainty what the weather will be like past two or three days.

Evidence marks expressions that denote a set of facts on the basis of which the Speaker makes the prediction.

Violence was predicted on the basis of disorder at demonstrations in Paris.

Manner marks any description of the Speaker's prediction making that is not covered by more specific FEs.

Smeagol confidently|Mnr predicted that he would win the race.
One commentator rashly predicted that the fad for adaptions wouldn't last much longer

Note that this FE does not cover modifiers such as 'correctly' or 'accurately'.

An act whereby the Speaker makes a prediction.

My regular psychic fortells my future by examining the configuration of spent coffee grounds|mea.

The Place where the Speaker makes the prediction.

Greenman predicted at a small dinner party that the market would rise again.

This FE identifies the Time when the prediction is made.

John predicted last year that he would be finished by October.

This FE marks expressions that indicate for what future time an Eventuality is predicted.

Cocoa stocks reached a record 1.2m tonnes and a seventh year of surplus is forecast for the year to September 1991.

Descriptor describes a characteristic of the Eventuality.