MESSAGE

Roles: content, message2

message2 is a message about content or whose content is content. It may exist in expressed, perceived, and/or recorded form. Combine with SENDER, EXPERIENCER, and/or MEDIUM as needed.

Message Initiation and Deinitiation

When a message is created through expression or perception (including observation), use INIT:

Predicates that denote the deinititation of perception use MESSAGE-DEINIT:

Message Predicates with Control Constructions

Some predicates express their content through a control construction, in which case combine with META:

content is used for reported speech, direct or indirect:

The message2 Role

The message2 role should only be used in those cases where the predicate refers to a message by itself, and so does the argument. For example:

By contrast, for a light predicate like gave, use META:

And with predicates of perception, use content for the message, because it existed before the perception:

Messages without the MESSAGE Frame

When there is no content or message2 argument, predicates of expression are annotated with EXPRESSION, and predicates of perception, with EXPERIENCE.

Special Kinds of Messages

Gesture is a kind of expression, too:

For normative and evaluative messages, use NORM or EVALUATION, respectively.