Definitions of Speaker| Frame | Type | Definition |
| Adducing | C | The Speaker is the person who specifies the Role to be filled by the Specified_entity . |
| Agree_or_refuse_to_act | C | The Speaker is the person to whom a particular action has been proposed and who responds to the request or offer made. |
| Attempt_suasion | C | The person who intends through the use of language to get another person to act. |
| Attributed_information | C | A sentient entity that has communicated the information encoded by the Proposition . |
| Become_silent | C | The Speaker has previously been speaking but has now stopped. |
| Being_named | P | The FE Speaker is the person using the name of the Entity . |
| Bragging | C | The Speaker is the person who produces a message about a Topic . |
| Candidness | C | The Speaker produces the Message , the truth or sincerity of which is at issue. It is normally expressed as the External Argument of predicative uses of the target word, or as the Nominal Head of prenominal uses. |
| Commitment | C | The Speaker is the person who commits him/herself to do something. Speaker is usually the External Argument of predicative uses of the target or the Genitive modifier of a noun: Jo made a promise to me. Jo promised me she would cook dinner. Jo's promise to cook dinner came to nothing. |
| Communicate_categorization | C | The individual that communates the message concerning the Category of an Item . |
| Communication_manner | C | Speaker is the sentient entity that produces a Message or communicates about a Topic. It is expressed as the External Argument of verbs: |
| Communication_noise | C | Speaker is the sentient entity that delivers the Message . |
| Communication_response | C | The Speaker is the sentient entity that communicates the reply or response. It is expressed as the External Argument of predicative uses of a Target verb or as the Genitive modifier of a Target noun: |
| Convey_importance | C | The person who uses language in the written or spoken modality to convey a Message to another person. |
| Encoding | C | Speaker , the person who encodes the Message , occurs as the External Argument of all the verbs: |
| Fining | C | The Speaker is the person imposes the fine upon the Payer . |
| Hear | P | This is the person who produces a Message. Typically, it is expressed in this frame as a PP-complement headed by from : |
| Labeling | C | The Speaker is the person who conventionally uses a linguistic sign to refer to an Entity . |
| Name_conferral | C | The person who uses the linguistic expression (Name) to refer to the Referent. |
| Predicting | C | The Speaker makes a prediction. |
| Prevarication | C | The person who uses language in the written or spoken modality to convey a deceptive Message to the Addressee. |
| Questioning | C | The person asking a question generally occurs as the External Argument of verb and noun targets: |
| Reading_aloud | C | The language user who reads the Text aloud. |
| Reassuring | C | The sentient entity that uses language in the written or spoken modality to reassure another person. |
| Referring_by_name | C | The person who uses the Name to refer to the Entity . |
| Renunciation | C | The Speaker is the person who communicates their cessation of association with the Content . |
| Request | C | The Speaker , as in other communication frames, is generally an External Argument. |
| Respond_to_proposal | C | The Speaker is the person who communicates the reply or response. |
| Reveal_secret | C | The Speaker is the sentient entity that reveals the Information (whether spoken or written). |
| Silencing | C | The sentient entity that is not communicating. |
| Simple_name | P | A speaker or speech community that uses a Term to refer to a particular Entity . |
| Simple_naming | C | The speaker or speech community that uses a Term to refer to a particular Entity . |
| Speak_on_topic | C | The person who orally delivers a text about a Topic to a passive Audience . |
| Spelling_and_pronouncing | C | The language user who produces a Sign in some modality. |
| Statement | C | The Speaker is the sentient entity that produces the Message (whether spoken or written). It is normally expressed as the External Argument of predicative uses of the target word, or as the Genitive modifier of the noun. |
| Suasion | C | The person who intends through the use of language to get another person to act. |
| Talking_into | C | The Speaker intends through the use of language to get another person to act. |
| Telling | C | The Speaker is the sentient entity that produces the Message . |
| Volubility | C | This is the person who is characterized as talkative, reticent etc. It is usually the External Argument: |