<def-root>A <fen>Killer</fen> or <fen>Cause</fen> causes the death of the <fen>Victim</fen>.
<ex><fex name="Killer">John</fex> <t>drowned</t> <fex name="Victim">Martha</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The person or sentient entity that causes the death of the <fen>Victim</fen>.</def-root >
<def-root>The living entity that dies as a result of the killing.</def-root>
<def-root>An inanimate entity or process that causes the death of the <fen>Victim</fen>.
<ex><fex name="Cause">The rockslide</fex> <t>killed</t> nearly half of the climbers.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The state of affairs that the <fen>Killer</fen> is trying to bring about by killing.
<ex>It's simple: he <t>killed</t> her <fex name="Purp">to get the inheritance</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The method or action that the <fen>Killer</fen> or <fen>Cause</fen> performs resulting in the death of the <fen>Victim</fen>.
<ex>The flood <t>exterminated</t> the rats <fex name="Means">by cutting off access to food</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The preexisting state of affairs that the <fen>Killer</fen> is responding to.
<ex>She <t>drowned</t> him <fex name="Explanation">for lying</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The location where the death took place.
<ex>Apparently there were two <t>murders</t> <fex name="Place">in Atherton</fex> in one week.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The point or period of time within which the <fen>Victim</fen> is killed.
<ex>There is no evidence that the royal family was <t>killed</t> <fex name="Time">during the destruction</fex> at this site.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The state of the <fen>Killer</fen> or <fen>Victim</fen> during the killing.
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<def-root>The state of the <fen>Victim</fen> that results from being killed. (Normally this is somewhat redundant.)
<ex>Two men ... <t>smothered</t> her <fex name="Result">to death</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The device used by the <fen>Killer</fen> to bring about the death of the <fen>Victim</fen>.
<ex>It's difficult to <t>suicide</t> <fex name="Instr">with only a pocketknife</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Any description of the event which is not covered by more specific FEs, including force (hard, softly), secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). It may indicate salient characteristics of a <fen>Killer</fen> that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
<ex><t>Kill</t> them <fex name="Manner">quietly</fex>.</ex>
<ex>A true professional , he <t>beheaded</t> his victims <fex name="Man">with unhurried expertise</fex>, a credit to his calling.</ex>
<ex>A gunman <t>slaughtered</t> six people <fex name="Man">in cold blood</fex> because he had been evicted.</ex>
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<def-root>The <fen>Degree</fen> appears with adjectives to describe the killing potential of an object or with nouns to describe how widespread the killing is.
<ex>The Nazis engaged in <fex name="Degree">mass</fex> <t>genocide</t>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>This extra-thematic FE applies to participants that derive a benefit from the occurrence of the event specified by the target predicate. </def-root>
<def-root>Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the event itself and any of its participants. </def-root>
<def-root>The length of time from when the event denoted by the target began to be repeated to when it stopped.</def-root>
<def-root>This frame element is defined as the number of times an event occurs per some unit of time. A Frequency expression answers the question how often.</def-root>
<def-root>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.</def-root>
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Surviving
Death
COD: cause the death of.
FN: to kill, esp. a large proportion of a group
FN: to kill (a powerful person) for political motives
FN: to kill by chopping off the head
FN: to murder (used as a euphemism)
FN: to kill in large numbers or completely. "We have to exterminate the termites in the garage."
FN: to kill by forcing underwater until death occurs
FN: to kill people in large numbers, esp. for ideological reasons (used as a euphemism)
FN: to unlawfully kill another living being
FN: to kill violently. "They vowed to slay their enemies and recapture their land."
FN: to murder (used as a euphemism)
FN: to cause to die due to lack of oxygen
FN: to kill by covering the mouth and nose so that the victim cannot breathe
FN: to kill someone by depriving them of food
FN: to cause to die due to a lowered level of oxygen in the body
FN: to delibreately kill oneself
FN: the killing of a human being
FN: to kill oneself deliberately
COD: put (an animal) to death humanely.
FN: the killing of a person performed with the intention of helping them avoid a more unpleasant or painful manner of death
COD: kill
COD: sufficient to cause death.
FN: killing, esp. of people
FN: elimination; killing
COD: put (someone) to death by nailing or binding them to a cross.
FN: the act of crucifying or being crucified.
COD: cut off the head of
COD: deliberately and violently kill (a large number of people)
COD: kill (animals) for food or kill (people) in a cruel or violent way.
COD: (of a group) kill (someone) for an alleged offence without a legal trial, especially by hanging.
FN: a person who gets rid of another person, especially by killing.
COD: an act of causing death.
COD: unlawful and premeditated killing
COD: the killing of a large number of people in a cruel or violent way.
COD: a person or thing that kills.
COD: an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people
COD: the killing of an infant.
FN: suffocation by covering the mouth and nose
FN: the act of killing with violence, especially in battle.
COD: the killing of a king.
COD: an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, originally that of Jews in Russia or eastern Europe.
FN: the act of killing somebody with a gun.
COD: destruction or slaughter on a large scale.
COD: the killing of one's mother
COD: the deliberate killing of a very large number of people from a particular ethnic group or nation.
COD: kill (someone) brutally.
FN: the act of cutting off the head of somebody.
FN: the fact of murdering (a political or religious leader)
FN: brutal or wholesale killing or murder.
COD: the killing of a large number of people.
FN: the act of causing someone to suffocate
COD: a person who assassinates
COD: an event in which many people are killed violently.
FN: the cutting off of somebody's head
FN: the act of wiping out a group by killing all its members
COD: the killing of one's brother or sister.
COD: kill by strangulation, especially with an iron collar or a length of wire or cord
FN: somebody who has committed murder
FN: somebody who kills in a violent manner and/or kills large numbers of people
COD: person that kills with violence, especially in battle.
FN: the act of killing or offering as a sacrifice, especially by burning.
COD: the killing of one's father
FN: (slang) to kill.
COD: causing or able to cause death.
COD: causing death
COD: an occurrence of death by accident, in war, or from disease
FN: euthanize or put down
FN: kill.
FN: slaughter; killing.
FN: to kill someone
FN: to kill someone