Definitions of State_of_affairs| Frame | Type | Definition |
| Compliance | C | A State_of_Affairs may violate a law or rule. |
| Reason | C | The eventuality that motivates the Agent "s performing a particular Action in response to it. |
| Coincidence | C | A State_of_affairs (that is, an event or state) that holds independently of (potentially) causally-related States of affairs. |
| Continued_state_of_affairs | C | A state which holds prior to and up through the Reference_occasion . |
| Deserving | C | An Eventuality or an Entity that is taken to constitute sufficient reason for taking another Action . |
| Desirable_event | C | The State_of_affairs that the speaker finds desirable. |
| Destiny | C | The State_of_affairs that is destined to occur to the Protagonist. |
| Disgraceful_situation | C | The entity or event which brings disgrace upon the Protagonist . |
| Explaining_the_facts | C | A fact whose cause is under consideration. |
| Feigning | C | The State_of_affairs is a an event, a state, or a property that the Agent wants others to believe have occurred or hold. |
| Justifying | C | A State_of_affairs that the Agent is held responsible for. |
| Luck | C | The State of affairs that is evaluated. |
| Permitting | C | The State_of_affairs is the situation that is permitted by the Principle . |
| Prevent_from_having | C | The is the situation, state-of-affairs, or state of having a possession that the Protagonist is kept from having. |
| Prohibiting | C | No Definition |
| Seeking_to_achieve | C | A state or event that the Agent wants to bring about. The Agent may but need not be a participant in that State_of_affairs . |
| Subversion | C | A state or event that is ongoing and whose continuance or unfolding is impeded. |
| Summarizing | C | The State_of_affairs is summarized by the Communicator . |
| Turning_out | C | The state of affairs that a cognizer realizes. |