The following attitudes of the speaker towards his proposition generate different Deontic modalities:
| mode | term | speaker's attitude | example |
|---|---|---|---|
| directive | obligation | I require that p | He must go. |
| permission | I allow that p | He may go. | |
| commissive | commitment | I grant that p | Yuc. He'l u bine'. |
Variants of these modal relations have an unidentified entity in the place of the speaker and/or a participant of p as the “addressee” of the modal operation.