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254Table 26. Linguistic realizations of the core FE ARGUER in the English corpusThe PROTAGONIST is the core FE of several frames: [Authorization],[Compensation], [Compliance], [Crime], [Duty], [Granting], [Law applicability], [Order],[Petition], [Proceeding] and [Right]. Table 27 illustrates all the linguistic realizations of thecore FE PROTAGONIST in the English corpus. As it can be observed from Table 27, thePROTAGONIST is most often a person, a judge, the Crown and the accused. In contrast withthe ARGUER, which more often corresponds to the parties in the lawsuit than to the judgejudging the case, the instantiations of PROTAGONIST are more varied. Another differencebetween the ARGUER and the PROTAGONIST relates to the possibility of the PROTAGONISTundergoing actions in some of the frames, whereas the ARGUER is always responsible forcarrying out the action evoked in the frames. Consider the following examples: