Introduction

Superframes is a scheme for frame-semantic annotation of text. Every predicate is assigned a frame, and every argument is assigned a unique role. Superframes annotations can help search corpora for phenomena of interest, enable quantitative cross-lingual comparisons, and support semantic parsing. Superframes aims to be easy to annotate. In particular,

1. Superframes does not require a lexicon. Frames are coarse and small enough in number to learn them by heart.
2. Superframes is language-independent.
3. Superframes ia annotated atop Universal Dependencies, thus delegating many difficult syntax-related decisions to an established framework.

Superframes defines a taxonomy of frames, each of which denotes a relation between two entities and thus defines two roles. Annotating a text comes down to assigning frame labels to content words and role labels to UD dependency edges between them.