SITUATION
Roles: situee, situator
This superframe is the ancestor of all other superframes except ENTTIY. It
denotes a situation in the most general sense: some entity (the situee) is in
a situation, whatever the nature of that situation may be. If there is another
core argument, it is labeled situator and the situation is then some sort of
relation between two entities. There are four usual ways to use this frame:
Stacked with -DYN
Used for predicates that describe processes that cannot easily be framed in terms of a state but that involve complex transitions through multiple hetereogeneous states:
Dependency graph for sentence: Kim was partying. Token partying is labeled SITUATION-DYN and has an edge labeled situee to token Kim.
Stacked with an Aspectual or Modal Frame
This often occurs with predicates that focus on aspect or made, leaving the precise nature of the relation between the two arguments underspecified.
Dependency graph for sentence: transition of the account to a new government. Token transition is labeled SITUATION-INIT and has an edge labeled situee to token account and an edge labeled situator to token government.
Dependency graph for sentence: they need three months. Token need is labeled SITUATION-NECESSITY and has an edge labeled situee to token they and an edge labeled situator to token months.
As a Default Frame
Use SITUATION if an entity is described as being in a state, but it is not
internal and there is not other frame that seems to fit
better.
Dependency graph for sentence: I was los. Token los is labeled SITUATION and has an edge labeled situee to token I.