Experiencer

The Experiencer is the being who has a physical experience on some part of his or her body, or internally. Often information about this frame element is incorporated as a possessive determiner into the constituent expressing the Body Part, in which case it is not tagged separately (from Body Part), as shown below: My legs hurt! Sometimes, however, this frame element is expressed as an External Argument in its own right: I hurt all over! Here, the phrase all over can be considered a kind of generalized Body Part expression, and the pronoun I expresses the Experiencer independently. With nouns and adjectives in this frame, the separate expression of the Experiencer is more common: I have a pain in my leg.