In this paper the authors analyzed the semantic situation and its representation in accordance with the text type, namely, urban folklore texts – anecdotes (jokes) and ёction. The authors focused mainly on the situation of wine drinking. The set of actants depends on text nature realized differently in different types of texts. The most comprehensive representation of the wine drinking situation is found in Russian anecdotes: they feature the quantity and quality of the represented predicates and actants. In the literary text the selection of predicates and wine drinking participants is determined by the author’s intention.