Frame Report

The Agent is the person (or other force) that causes the Theme to move.

The waiter removed the dishes from the table.

The non-Agentive cause of the removing event.

The raging fire quickly emptied the square of all people.
Magnetic storms on the sun sometimes eject hot gas from beneath the surface.

The Source is the initial location of the Theme, before it changes location.

The waiter removed the dishes from the table.

A few of the words in this frame participate in an alternation between a Theme object and a Source object.

The waiter cleared the dishes|Thm from the table|Src.
The waiter cleared the table|Src of dishes|Thm.
The plumber drained the water|Thm from the sink|Src.
The plumber drained the sink|Src of water|Thm.
The gardener emptied the soil|Thm from the bucket|Src.
The gardener emptied the bucket|Src of soil|Thm.
The army evacuated the people|Thm from the town|Src.
The army evacuated the town|Src.

Sentences with a Source object belong in the frame Motion_Emptying. The frames Motion_Emptying and Motion_Removing differ in terms of which frame element, the Source or the Theme, is construed as being more highly affected.

Theme is the object that changes location.

The waiter removed the dishes from the table.

Degree to which event occurs

This FE is used to indicate the Direction that the Theme travels when it is removed.

The Distance is any expression which characterizes the extent of motion. This frame element occurs throughout the motion domain but is very infrequent in Motion_Noise.

John withdrew the gun a few feet.

The Goal is the location where the Theme ends up. This Frame Element is not profiled by words in this frame, though it may occasionally be expressed, as with the word remove.

Grandmother removed the fine china to a safe place.

The tool the Agent uses to remove the Theme from its Source.

Any expression which describes a property of motion which is not directly related to the trajectory of motion expresses the frame element Manner. Descriptions of speed, steadiness, grace, means of motion, and other things count as Manner expressions.

The army evacuated the townspeople efficiently

The Means is an act whereby the Agent achieves the removal.

You'll have to eject it by sticking an unfolded paperclip into that little hole|Mns.

Any description of a trajectory of motion which is neither a Source nor a Goal expresses the frame element Path. In this frame, Path expressions almost always have a via-sense.

The army evacuated the townspeople through the tunnel.

The location where the removal takes place.

You just take the dishes and rinse them in the kitchen|pla, okay?

To what end the Agent or Cause removes the Theme.

The time at which the removal takes place.

That year they drained the swamp-water out of Higgs' bottomland.

The state of the world when the Agent or Cause removes the Theme from the Source.

An event the punctuates the larger Removing event.

With a laugh, she tore a page from his diary.

The Cotheme is the second moving object, expressed as a direct object or an oblique.

Pat removed the jam from the fridge along with the cheese.

This FE describes a participant of the state of affairs introduced by the target as being in some state during the action.

The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically follows. This often means that the Explanation causes the state of affairs expressed by the target, but not in all cases.

The Means_of_motion expresses the conveyance with which the Agent effects the motion of the Theme. The Means_of_motion holds and conveys the Theme. Means_of_motions can move in any way and in any medium. They are usually expressed obliquely with 'in' or 'by'. Weevacuated the population by helicopter.

Expressions marked with this extra-thematic FE modify a non-iterative use of the target, and indicate that it is conceived as embedded within an iterated series of similar events or states.

Result of an event