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Speak_on_topic [agentive]
A Speaker addresses an Audience on a particular Topic. The Audience is generally passive, although for many types of address (including academic talks and press conferences), a discussion or question-answer period is virtually always required.
McNamara addressed congress on the state of affairs of the Department of Defense.
McNamara addressed congress on the state of affairs of the Department of Defense.
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- frm_speak_on_topic
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Speak_on_topic (fn_1.7_2023)
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- Speak_on_topic
Core Frame Elements (3)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Audience |
The person or persons to whom the Speaker delivers their text.
He lectured to the officers of the Scots Guard in 1929. |
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| Speaker |
The person who orally delivers a text about a Topic to a passive Audience.
You have to sermonize about the good times |
category
sentient
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| Topic |
What the text that the Speaker produces is about.
He was the Director: he could lecture on whomever he liked. |
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Peripheral Frame Elements (5)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manner |
The Manner is a description of the Speaker's speech.
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manner
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| Medium |
This frame element is the Medium through which the Speaker communicates.
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| Occasion |
The Occasion is the reason a public statement is given.
The New Year address was well received. Professor Frinkgave the Macarthur lecture in 1978. |
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| Place |
The Place describes the location where the speaking occurs.
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locative_relation
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| Time |
The Time describes when the speaking occurs.
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time
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (1)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
|---|---|---|---|
| Explanation |
Denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically followes. This often means that the Explanation causes the complaint, but not in all cases. In particular, there are cases when the connection is a bit weaker than normal for causation. In these instances, cause is mediated by some actor responding in a complex way to the situation. Such cases are not paraphrasable in the language of direct causation.
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state_of_affairs
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)
Using
Lexical Units (15)
| LU | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| address.n | — | FN: talk |
| address.v | — | COD: speak formally to. |
| deal.v | — | FN: speak on a particular topic. |
| discuss.v | — | COD: talk or write about (a topic) in detail. |
| expatiate.v | — | COD: speak or write at length or in detail |
| expound.v | — | COD: present and explain (a theory or idea) systematically. |
| go on.v | — | COD: talk at great or excessive length |
| hold forth.v | — | FN: to talk about something at length |
| lecture.n | — | COD: an educational talk to an audience, especially one of students in a university. |
| lecture.v | — | COD: deliver an educational lecture or lectures |
| pontificate.v | — | COD: express one's opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way. |
| preach.v | — | COD: deliver a religious address to an assembled group of people |
| ramble.v | — | COD: talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way |
| sermonize.v | — | COD: a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible |
| tell.v | — | FN: speak on a given topic (used almost or entirely exclusively with the word 'of') |
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