| A Cause, animate or inanimate, causes a process, the Effect, to begin. | |
| The murder of Sergei Kirov SET OFF a chain of events that culminated in the Great Terror of the 1930s. | |
| Ressam planned to SET a bomb OFF at the Los Angeles International Airport. | |
| Space email SPARKED astronaut jealousy. | |
| A crime surge in a former coal town PROMPTED a crackdown on illegal immigrants | |
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| Agent [Age] | The Agent is the actor responsible for creating the Effect. | |
| Cause [Cause] | An animate or inanimate entity, a force, or event that produces an effect. Volitionality is not a necessary characteristic of Causes. | |
| The programme SPARKED a public outcry. | ||
| Effect [Effect] | This Frame Element marks expressions that indicate the process that the Cause initiates. | |
| Few things SPARK the wrath of the British like food additives. | ||
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| Circumstances [Cir] | The state of the world at the time when the Agent or Cause produces the Effect. | |
| Concessive [Ses] | This FE signifies that the state of affairs expressed by the main clause (containing the target) occurs or holds, and something other than that state of affairs would be expected given the state of affairs in the concessive clause. | |
| Consecutive [Con] | A consecutive event to the starting of the Effect of the Agent. | |
| Containing_event [Con] | 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. | |
| Depictive [Dep] | This FE identifies the Depictive phrase describing the actor or undergoer of an action. | |
| Epistemic_stance [Epi] | This FE modifies the target to indicate the legal- or "by rule" domain within which it is true or operational. | |
| Event_description [Eve] | This FE applies to appraisals of the event, typically a judgment of its expectedness | |
| Explanation [Exp] | The reason why or the way in which the Agent or Cause causes the Effect. | |
| Manner [Man] | The way in which the Agent causes the Effect. | |
| Means [Mns] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | The Means is the way in which the Cause causes the process to begin. | |
| Medium [Med] | Medium is the physical or abstract setting in which the Cause results in the Effect. | |
| Particular_iteration [Par] | 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. In addition, most expressions of Particular_iteration indicate which instance of the series is being referred to. | |
| Place [Place] Semantic Type Locative_relation | This FE identifies the Place where the Effect occurs. | |
| In Obscurania, the release of the movie SPARKED protests. | ||
| Purpose [Pur] | To what end the Agent or Cause caused the Effect. | |
| Subevent [Sub] | This FE identifies the first Subevent of the started Effect. | |
| Time [Tim] Semantic Type Time | This FE is for the Time when causing to start occurs | |
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Is perspectivized in:
Is Causative of: Process_start
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Created by josef on Wed Jul 24 14:36:12 CEST 2002