Frame Report

An inanimate entity or process that causes the death of the Victim.

The rockslide killed nearly half of the climbers.

The device used by the Killer to bring about the death of the Victim.
It's difficult to suicide with only a pocketknife|Instr.

The person or sentient entity that causes the death of the Victim.

The method or action that the Killer or Cause performs resulting in the death of the Victim.

The flood exterminated the rats by cutting off access to food.

The living entity that dies as a result of the killing.

The Degree appears with adjectives to describe the killing potential of an object or with nouns to describe how widespread the killing is.
The Nazis engaged in mass genocide.

Any description of the event which is not covered by more specific FEs, including force (hard, softly), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may indicate salient characteristics of a Killer that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
Kill them quietly.
A true professional , he beheaded his victims with unhurried expertise|Man, a credit to his calling.
A gunman slaughtered six people in cold blood|Man because he had been evicted.

The location where the death took place.

Apparently there were two murders in Atherton in one week.

The point or period of time within which the Victim is killed.

There is no evidence that the royal family was killed during the destruction at this site.

This extra-thematic FE applies to participants that derive a benefit from the occurrence of the event specified by the target predicate.

Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the event itself and any of its participants.

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.

The state of the Killer or Victim during the killing.

The preexisting state of affairs that the Killer is responding to.

She drowned him for lying.

This frame element is defined as the number of times an event occurs per some unit of time. A Frequency expression answers the question how often.

The length of time from when the event denoted by the target began to be repeated to when it stopped.

The state of affairs that the Killer is trying to bring about by killing.

It's simple: he killed her to get the inheritance|Purp.

The state of the Victim that results from being killed. (Normally this is somewhat redundant.)

Two men ... smothered her to death.