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CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 87<br />

b. process: HesawFrances running up the hill.<br />

Sentences such asThe only time I saw Monk play, he was stinking drunk <strong>and</strong> <strong>Seeing</strong> Hideo<br />

Nomo pitch a no-hitter was the thrill of a lifetime, could be considered either as examples<br />

of spectate if we think of the event perfectively as a single performance, or as condition<br />

<strong>and</strong> process with the NP+bare-VP pattern.<br />

Sense READ<br />

see eye<br />

see read<br />

event<br />

<strong>Frame</strong> see read<br />

profiles Seen<br />

type event<br />

cat V<br />

lexm see<br />

roles:<br />

scenes:<br />

2<br />

3<br />

6Seer<br />

=<br />

4<br />

Seen =<br />

eye.Seer<br />

7<br />

5<br />

eye.Seen.Content<br />

22<br />

33<br />

6 event<br />

66<br />

66<br />

66<br />

66Uses<br />

66<br />

44<br />

roles:<br />

77<br />

77<br />

see eye [eye] 77<br />

77<br />

77<br />

5<br />

7<br />

5<br />

Seentext restr: short(Seen)<br />

seen.<br />

The seen is text, short enough that it can be read in a few minutes; seer reads<br />

There is an interesting interplay between see <strong>and</strong> read in regard to long <strong>and</strong> short<br />

printed matter: I saw her latest novel typically means that I haven't read it (yet), but Isaw<br />

your column in the paper or I saw your memo usually means that I have read it. In the<br />

case of the novel, see implies `not read' by scalar implicature (since the stronger term read

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