A semantic indexing system, the semantic indexing system comprising a processing resource configured to: provide a corpus comprising a plurality of textual documents, wherein (a) each of the textual documents being composed of one or more sentences; (b) each of the sentences being composed of one or more statements; and generate an index, the index mapping each of the statements to one or more frames; wherein each frame defines a structure that carries a semantic meaning, thereby enabling searching the corpus by the semantic meaning of a search statement.