Definitions of Ground| Frame | Type | Definition |
| Agriculture | C | This is the the background or context for the Food to which the Agriculturist pays attention in his agricultural efforts. |
| Alignment_image_schema | C | An entity whose location and orientation is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Alignment_match and Alignment_mismatch regions. |
| Appearance | P | Ground is the perceptual background against which the Phenomenon is experienced (or not experienced) by the Perceiver_passive . |
| Attempt_obtain_food_scenario | C | This is the entity to which the Seeker pays attention. It is referred to as Ground because it serves as the background or context for the Food . |
| Attention | P | The sensory field or subset of a sensory field that the Perceiver is attending to. |
| Becoming_aware | P | The Ground is the background or context against which a Cognizer becomes aware of a Phenomenon . It is normally expressed by a locative PP: |
| Bounded_region | C | An entity whose location is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Interior , Surface , Boundary , or Exterior regions. |
| Collocation_image_schema | C | An entity whose location is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Profiled_region . |
| Contact_image_schema | C | An entity whose location is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Profiled_region . |
| Containment_relation | C | The Ground serves as a basis for describing the location of the Figure . |
| Growing_food | P | This is the the physical background or context for the Food to which the Grower pays attention in his growing efforts. |
| Hunting | C | This is the entity to which the Hunter pays attention. It is referred to as Ground because it serves as the background or context for the Food . |
| Hunting_scenario | C | This is the entity to which the Hunter pays attention. It is referred to as Ground because it serves as the background or context for the Food . |
| Image_schema | C | An entity whose location is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Profiled_region . |
| Inspecting | C | The entity that the Inspector inspects with his senses to ascertain whether it is intact. |
| Locating | C | The general set of entities that the Perceiver examined in order to find the Sought_entity . |
| Location_of_light | C | The location of the phenomenon. |
| Locative_relation | C | The Ground serves as a basis for describing the location of the Figure . |
| Noise_makers | P | The location with which the Noise_maker is associated. |
| Path_traveled | P | A setting location through which the Path goes. |
| Perception_active | P | Ground is the perceptual background against which the Phenomenon is experienced by the Perceiver_agentive . |
| Perception_experience | P | The Ground is the perceptual background against which the Phenomenon is experienced (or not experienced) by the Perceiver_passive . It can be distinguished from locative postnominal modifiers of the Phenomenon in negative contexts. In this example, it is implied that Pat looked behind the bar and did not find Kim there. |
| Planting | C | The Ground is the background or context to which the Agent pays attention in his agricultural efforts. |
| Proximity_image_schema | C | An entity whose location is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Profiled_region . |
| Punctual_perception | P | The perceptual background against which the Phenomenon is experienced (or not experienced) by the Perceiver . |
| Region_with_portal | C | An entity whose location is relatively well-known and which, thus, can serve as a land-mark to identify the Interior , Surface , or Boundary . |
| Scouring | C | The location that the Searcher covers in looking for the Sought_entity . |
| Scrutinizing_for | C | The Cognizer pays attention to the Ground , so named because it serves as the background or context for the Phenomenon . |
| Scrutiny | C | The Cognizer pays attention to the Ground , so named because it serves as the background or context for the Phenomenon . This FE can be expressed as an NP Object or as a PP Complement. |
| Searching_scenario | C | The Cognizer pays attention to the Ground , so named because it serves as the background or context for the Phenomenon . |
| Seeking | P | This is the entity to which the Cognizer pays attention. It is referred to as Ground because it serves as the background or context for the Phenomenon. This FE can be expressed as an NP Object or as a PP Complement: Leslie examined the glass for cracks. Kim searched in the woods for mushrooms. |
| Sensation | C | This FE is the perceptual background against which the Phenomenon is experienced by the Perceiver. |
| Shopping | P | This is the entity to which the Cognizer pays attention. It is referred to as the Ground because it serves as the background or context for the Goods . This FE is usually expressed as a preposition phrase. |
| Sounds | P | An entity construed as stationary on or against which the Theme moves, resulting in either friction or impact. This entity is given less grammatical prominence compared to the Theme and is usually encoded in a spatial prepositional phrase. |
| Touring | E | The perceptual background against which the Attraction is experienced by the Tourist . |
| Within_distance | C | The Ground serves as a basis for describing the location of the Figure , as inside a region measured outward from the Ground and of a width specified by Distance . |