<def-root>A <fen>Speaker</fen> addresses an <fen>Audience</fen> on a particular <fen>Topic</fen>. The <fen>Audience</fen> is generally passive, although for many types of address (including academic talks and press conferences), a discussion or question-answer period is virtually always required.
<ex><fex name="Speaker">McNamara</fex> <t>addressed</t> <fex name="Audience">congress</fex> <fex name="Topic">on the state of affairs of the Department of Defense</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The person or persons to whom the <fen>Speaker</fen> delivers their text.
<ex>He <t>lectured</t> <fex name="Audience">to the officers of the Scots Guard</fex> in 1929.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The person who orally delivers a text about a <fen>Topic</fen> to a passive <fen>Audience</fen>.
<ex><fex name="Speaker">You</fex> have to <t>sermonize</t> about the good times</ex></def-root>
<def-root>What the text that the <fen>Speaker</fen> produces is about.
<ex>He was the Director: he could <t>lecture</t> <fex name="Topic">on whomever he liked</fex>.</ex>
</def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Manner</fen> is a description of the <fen>Speaker</fen>'s speech.</def-root>
<def-root>This frame element is the <fen>Medium</fen> through which the <fen>Speaker</fen> communicates.</def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Occasion</fen> is the reason a public statement is given.
<ex>The <fex name="Occasion">New Year</fex> <t>address</t> was well received.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Speaker">Professor Frink</fex><m>gave</m> the <fex name="Occasion">Macarthur</fex> <t>lecture</t> <fex name="Time">in 1978</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Time</fen> describes when the speaking occurs.</def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Place</fen> describes the location where the speaking occurs.</def-root>
<def-root>Denotes a proposition from which the main clause (headed by the target) logically followes. This often means that the Explanation causes the complaint, but not in all cases. In particular, there are cases when the connection is a bit weaker than normal for causation. In these instances, cause is mediated by some actor responding in a complex way to the situation. Such cases are not paraphrasable in the language of direct causation. </def-root>
Communication
COD: deliver an educational lecture or lectures
COD: a talk on a religious or moral subject, especially one given during a church service and based on a passage from the Bible
COD: present and explain (a theory or idea) systematically.
COD: deliver a religious address to an assembled group of people
FN: to talk about something at length
COD: speak or write at length or in detail
COD: talk or write at length in a confused or inconsequential way
COD: talk at great or excessive length
COD: talk or write about (a topic) in detail.
COD: speak formally to.
FN: talk
COD: an educational talk to an audience, especially one of students in a university.
COD: express one's opinions in a pompous and dogmatic way.
FN: speak on a particular topic.
FN: speak on a given topic (used almost or entirely exclusively with the word 'of')