| This frame characterizes, at a very abstract level, an Agent or Cause affecting a Patient. This frame is inherited by many lower-level frames. |
| Agent [Agt] Semantic Type Sentient | Agent is the entity that acts on another entity. | |
| Cause [cau] | An event which causes the Patient to be affected in some way. | |
| Event [Evnt] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | Event is an event in which an agent acts on an entity. | |
| Patient [Pat] | Patient is the entity that is being acted on and that may but need not undergo a change. | |
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| Depictive [Depict] | Depictive phrase describing the actor of an action The sloppy personDID the room. | |
| Manner [Manr] Semantic Type Manner | Any description of the intentional act 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 an Agent that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully). | |
| Means [Mns] Semantic Type State_of_affairs | An act performed by anAgent that enables them to act upon the Patient. | |
| Place [pla] Semantic Type Locative_relation | The location at which the event takes place. | |
| Result [Result] | Result of a transitive action | |
| Time [tim] Semantic Type Time | The time at which the event takes place | |
Inherits From: Event, Objective_influence
Is Inherited By: Cause_change, Cause_change_of_phase, Cause_impact, Cause_motion, Cause_temperature_change, Cause_to_be_wet, Cause_to_continue, Cause_to_make_noise, Cause_to_move_in_place, Cause_to_resume, Emptying, Endangering, Filling, Imposing_obligation, Intentionally_affect, Interrupt_process, Killing, Placing, Removing
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Created by wooters on Wed Feb 07 16:11:42 CET 2001