| A Speaker reveals Information that was previously secret to an Addressee. In some cases, the Addressee is expected to keep the Information from other parties. The Information may be damaging to the reputation of the Speaker. Some lexical units in this frame imply that the Speaker has already been confronted with the Information. | |
| El gobierno RECONOCIÓ que sus previsiones económicas habían sido demasiado optimistas. | |
| Las FILTRACIONES sobre este escándalo económico han perjudicado muy seriamente al gobierno socialista. DNI | |
| Information [Inf] | The Information is the FE that identifies the content of what the Speaker is revealing to the Addressee. It can be expressed as a clause or as a noun phrase. | |
| El acusado CONFESÓ finalmente que había sido él quien había disparado el arma. | ||
| No puedes revelar ninguna información en relación con este tema | ||
| Speaker [Spe] Semantic Type Sentient | The Speaker is the person who reveals the Information (whether spoken or written). | |
| El sospechoso CONFESÓ finalmente que había sido él el autor del crimen. | ||
| Topic [Top] | The Topic is the subject matter about which the Speaker is speaking. It normally only appears with noun targets, or in special constructions. | |
| Las REVELACIONES sobre la vuelta de Cristo a la tierra irritaron particularmente a los jerarcas del Vaticano. | ||
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| Addressee [add] Semantic Type Sentient | The Addressee is the person to whom the Information is revealed. | |
| Evelyn CONFESSED to Barney Holesum about what had happened. | ||
| An unknown intern in the White House LEAKED the "lunch menu" to the press. | ||
| Completeness [com] | The degree to which Information is revealed. | |
| When she confessed, she confessed completely. | ||
| Containing_event [] | 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] | The state of the Speaker during the statement. | |
| He LET SLIP his involvement in the coverup in a drunken stupor at an embassy party. | ||
| Descriptor [] | A characteristic of the revealed secret. | |
| Event_description [] | In general, this FE is used for phrases that describe the clause of the target as a whole especially any descriptions of the state of affairs denoted by the target as role fillers in other frames. | |
| Frequency [] | Frequency is defined as the number of times the Reveal_secret event occurs per some unit of time. A Frequency expression answers the question "how often." | |
| Internal_cause [ica] | The emotional or physical state of the Speaker that leads to the revelation. | |
| Out of spite Spuddmeier revealed his boss's affair. | ||
| Location_of_protagonist [] | This frame element is used to indicate the location of a participant in cases where the multiple participants of an event are not co-located in the typical fashion. In Release 1.2, this FE has various frame-specific names including Location of perceiver, or Location of participant; it was even (incorrectly) labelled Place in some frames. | |
| Manner [man] Semantic Type Manner | Any description of the revelation which is not covered by more specific FEs, including epistemic modification (probably, presumably, mysteriously), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may also indicate salient characteristics of the Speaker that also affect the revelation (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully, maliciously). | |
| Means [mea] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | An act whereby the Speaker makes a revelation. | |
| He REVEALED his true feelings about the matter by giving her the thumbs-up behind his back. | ||
| Medium [med] | Medium is the physical entity or channel used by the Speaker to transmit the statement. | |
| La Virgen María no DESVELÓ en la televisión el misterio que envuelve su relación amorosa con José. | ||
| Period of iterations [] | This FE describes the length of time from when the event denoted by the target began to be repeated to when it stopped. | |
| Place [pla] Semantic Type Locative_relation | The FE specifies the place where the Information is revealed. | |
| According to the report, he CONFESSED to eating onions and gargling with generic mouthwash at the station. | ||
| Re-encoding [ree] | An alternative description of expressed action | |
| Source_material [] | The medium in which the secret Information origninally resided. | |
| Time [Time] Semantic Type Time | The time when the revelation is made. | |
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confesar.v, confesión.n, confidencia.n, desvelar.v, filtración.n, filtrar.v, reconocer.v, revelación.n, revelar.v
Created by josef on Tue Jun 29 15:03:50 CEST 2004