<def-root>An <fen>Author</fen> creates a <fen>Text</fen>, either written, such as a letter, or spoken, such as a speech, that contains meaningful linguistic tokens, and may have a particular <fen>Addressee</fen> in mind. The <fen>Text</fen> may include information about its topic, although the latter is not an FE in this frame.
<ex><fex name="Author">I</fex> <t>penned</t> <fex name="Text">a letter concerning racism</fex> <fex name="Addressee">to Congress</fex>.</ex>
<ex><fex name="Author">The brothers</fex> <t>said</t> <fex name="Text">not two words</fex> <fex name="Addressee">to each other</fex>.</ex>
<ex><t>Jot</t> <fex name="Text">any notes you need</fex> <fex name="Place">below the line</fex> <fex name="Manner">in red pen only</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Author</fen> produces a particular <fen>Text</fen>.</def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Components</fen> are the parts that the <fen>Author</fen> uses to construct the <fen>Text</fen>. <ex> Caitlin <t>wrote</t> the book <fex name="Components">from memoirs she collected</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The entity which results from the act of writing or speaking.
<ex>Michael <t>wrote</t> <fex name="Text">a frame description</fex>.</ex> <ex> Cybil wanted to <t>speak</t> <fex name="Text">those three words</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>Depictive phrase describing the actor of an action
<ex>I <t>wrote</t> everything in that decade <fex name="Depict">on drugs</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The instrument with which an intentional act is performed.</def-root>
<def-root>Where the event takes place.</def-root>
<def-root>Manner of performing an action. This frame includes some peculiar examples of manner phrases.
<t>Write</t> it <fex name="Manner">in pen</fex>.
<t>Write</t> it <fex name="Manner">in ink</fex>.</def-root>
<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Means</fen> by which a <fen>Text</fen> is created.</def-root>
<def-root>The purpose for which an intentional act is performed.
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<def-root>This FE identifies the <fen>Time</fen> at which the text is created.</def-root>
<def-root>This is the person to whom the Message is communicated. When this FE is expressed, it often appears in a prepositional phrase introduced by to, or as the direct object, or as the first object in a double object construction.
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<def-root><fen>Beneficiary</fen> identifies the person in whose honor or for whose benefit the <fen>Text</fen> is created.</def-root>
<def-root>This FE describes the form in which the text is presented.
<ex><fex name="Author">Yeats</fex> <t>wrote</t> <t>out</t> his poems <fex name="Form">in prose</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The <fen>Explanation</fen> for creating the text.
<ex>I <t>wrote</t> the article <fex name="exp">because I would have lost my teaching post otherwise</fex>.</ex></def-root>
<def-root>The language in which the <fen>Text</fen> is represented or the physical materials upon which the <fen>Text</fen> is recorded.
<ex>I <t>wrote</t> the code <fex name="Medium">on the back of the envelope</fex>.</ex></def-root>
Intentionally_create
Sign_agreement
Communication
Spelling_and_pronouncing
Text
COD: write or compose
COD: be the author or the originator of.
FN: compose a text in writing
COD: write or create (a work of art, especially music or poetry).
COD: prepare a preliminary version of (a text).
FN: write quickly on paper or other receptive medium.
COD: write quickly.
FN: say (a verbal formula).
FN: recite or create a speech, formula, or other meaningful text
COD: make (a sound) or say (something).
FN: write a full account of something
FN: physically write (a mark or symbol) on paper or another receptive medium.
FN: to write (e.g., a letter) to a central letter-receiving location (e.g., as a letter to the editor)
FN: write carefully, generally to avoid omitting necessary parts of a message (or other sequence of symbols) which is already formed in the mind
COD: write clearly without joining the letters.
COD: write using a typewriter or computer.
FN: type completely, expressing all parts of a message already formed in the mind.
FN: create a message by typing
FN: input by typing.
COD: produce a paper copy of (information stored on a computer).
COD: produce (books, newspapers, etc.) by a mechanical process involving the transfer of text or designs to paper.
FN: write down
COD: record (a series of events) in a factual and detailed way.
COD: write one's name on (something) for the purposes of identification or authorization.
FN: to write down quickly .
FN: to communicate an enumeration of enities or events, either written or spoken