| Obligation : Обязательство |  | An expression of the commitment which the Parties have to engage in a commercial transaction. |  |  | 
    | Parties : Стороны |  | The group of individuals portrayed as equally involved in having a commercial agreement. |  |  | 
    | Party_1 : Сторона_1 |  | The individual or individuals that form the more prominent (i.e. agentive) party of the commercial agreement, as compared with Party_2. That is, Party_1 is generally encoded as the External Argument of verbs, and peripheral FEs that do not make reference to the event itself generally make reference to Party_1. Thus manner expressions are construed to apply to Party_1, not necessarily to Party_2 or the group of Parties as a whole. |  |  | 
    | Party_2 : Сторона_2 |  | The semantically (and grammatically) less prominent participant (or group of participants) in the agreement. It is generally encoded within a prepositional phrase (e.g. headed by with). |  |  | 
    | Topic : Тема |  | Topic is a description of the domain covered by the commercial agreement. |  |  | 
    | Medium : Среда |  | As with other frames in the Communication domain, the Medium of communication may be expressed. Medium is the physical entity or channel used to record or negotiate the Obligation. |  |  | 
    | Place : Место |  | This FE identifies the Place where an agreement was made. |  |  | 
    | Time : Время |  | This FE identifies the Time when the agreement was made. |  |  |