| Two (or more) people (the Parties, also encodable as Party_1 and Party_2) negotiate an agreement. Both sides are construed as making a commitment to assume an Obligation--the process is understood to be symmetrical or reciprocal. Instead of a specific mention of the Obligation, a Topic expression may be used to indicate the domain covered. | |
| So far , we have AGREEDto cede 100km of coastline to Kiribati . DNI | |
| At common law, the parties could make an oral AGREEMENT to submit a dispute to arbitration and such oral agreement would be valid. | |
| Obligation [obl] | An expression of the commitment made by the Parties . | |
| The US and Russia have AGREED to share early warning data on missile launches. | ||
| Parties [pars] | The group of individuals portrayed as equally involved in making an agreement. | |
| The US and Russia have AGREED to cooperate in destroying surplus portable anti-aircraft missiles. | ||
| Party_1 [par1] Semantic Type Sentient | The individual or individuals that form the more prominent (i.e. agentive) party of the agreement, as compared with Party_2. That is, Party_1 is generally encoded as the External Argument of verbs, and peripheral FEs that do not make reference to the event itself generally make reference to Party_1. Thus Manner is construed to be that of Party_1, not necessarily that of Party_2 or the group of Parties as a whole. | |
| On Monday, the airline reached a DEAL with the Canadian Auto Workers. | ||
| Party_2 [par2] Semantic Type Sentient | The semantically (and grammatically) less prominent participant (or group of participants) in the agreement. It is generally encoded within a prepositional phrase (e.g. headed by with). | |
| Mozilla Foundation has finally reached an AGREEMENT with America Online. | ||
| Topic [top] | Topic is a description of the domain covered. | |
| Some types of alloy steel have been covered in the expiring trade AGREEMENT. | ||
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| Descriptor [] | This FE describes a characteristic of the Obligation. | |
| Manner [man] Semantic Type Manner | Any description of the act of making an agreement which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). In addition, it may indicate salient characteristics of either Party_1 or Parties that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully). | |
| I readily AGREED with her to end our wrestling match. | ||
| Medium [med] | As with other frames in the Communication domain, the Medium of communication may be expressed. Medium is the physical entity or channel used to record or negotiate the Obligation. | |
| The parties made a written AGREEMENT to arbitrate disputes arising in connection with the contract. | ||
| Place [P] Semantic Type Locative_relation | This FE identifies the Place where the Agreement occurs. | |
| The town coucil members reached an AGREEMENT at the City Hall plenary session. | ||
| Time [T] Semantic Type Time | This FE identifies the Place where the Agreement occurs. | |
| The town coucil members finally reached an AGREEMENT at midnight. | ||
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Created by josef on Tue Mar 01 18:08:22 CET 2005