<def-root>An Entity is declared to exist, generally irrespective of its position or even the possibility of its position being specified. <fen>Time</fen>, <fen>Duration</fen>, <fen>Inherent_purpose</fen>, and <fen>State</fen> may also be mentioned.
This frame is to be contrasted with Presence, which describes the existence of an Entity in a particular (and salient) spacio-temporal context, and which also entails the presence of an observer who can detect the existence of the Entity in that context.
<ex><fex name="Time">Finally</fex>, <fex name="Ent">Poland</fex> ceased to <t>exist</t> <fex name="State">as a state</fex> <fex name="Duration">for hundreds of years</fex>.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Ent">Such laws</fex> <t>exist</t> <fex name="Use">to prevent exactly this kind of fraud</fex>.</ex>
<ex><t>There</t> <t>IS</t> <fex name="Ent">a Santa Claus</fex>!</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Some entity, abstract or concrete, which is stated to exist.</def-root>
<def-root>A time at which the entity is in existence.</def-root>
<def-root>The period during which the <fen>Entity</fen> exists.</def-root>
<def-root>The reason why the <fen>Entity</fen> exists. Generally, this is more specifically the reason why the <fen>Entity</fen> was made.</def-root>
<def-root>The condition that the <fen>Entity</fen> exists in.
<ex>Natural electricity <t>exists</t> <fex name="State">in many forms</fex>: in storms, solar wind, and nerve impulses.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>A situation, force, or entity which brings about the existence of the <fen>Entity</fen>.</def-root>
<def-root>Where the <fen>Entity</fen> exists.</def-root>
<def-root><fen>Circumstances</fen> marks expressions that indicate a set of conditions under which the <fen>Entity</fen> is declared to exist</def-root>
<def-root>The perspective of an individual who judges whether they consider the <fen>Entity</fen> (or further state of affairs) to exist or not.
<ex><fex name="Viewpoint">For him</fex>, <t>there</t> <t>'s</t> just too much drink in the world.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This FE signifies that the state of affairs expressed by the main clause (containing the target) occurs or holds, and something other than that state of affairs would be expected given the state of affairs in the concessive clause. </def-root>
<def-root>This FE describes a participant of the state of affairs introduced by the target as being in some state during the action. </def-root>
State
Circumscribed_existence
Locative_relation
Have_associated
Cycle_of_existence_scenario
Ceasing_to_be
Coming_to_be
Presence
FN: be real, directly or indirectly perceptible.
COD: the fact or state of existing.
COD: actually existing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed.
COD: exist; be present
COD: be in the same place or condition during further time.