Typographic Conventions
We use the following typographic conventions in this text.
- The first mention of a technical term appears in bold face:
A semantic frame is a script-like structure.
- Data not set off from the text appear in italics:
Note that the children take naps is not treated as a clause.
- In the text, names of Frame Elements are capitalized:
A Speaker communicates a Message to an Addressee in some Medium.
- In example sentences set off from the text, target words are in bold face:
Bob told a story.
- Constituents which represent frame elements are in square brackets:
[Bob] told [a story].
This shows that Bob and a story are elements in the
frame evoked by the target word told.
