Predicate: adapt

Frames file for 'adapt' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry at the moment.

Roleset id: adapt.01 , make (more) suitable, vncls: 26.9

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, adaptor
        Arg1: thing adapted
        Arg2: adapted to
        Arg3: adapted from

Example: unstated goal or source

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        William Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 developed an early
        language-housekeeper system for PCs, and Gates became an industry
        billionaire six years after IBM adapted one of these versions in
        1981.

        Arg0 : IBM
        Rel : adapted
        Arg1 : one of these versions
        ArgM-TMP : in 1981

Example: arg1 defaults to reflexive on arg0

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: infinitive

        And [surprising numbers of small investors]-1 seem *trace*-1 to be
        adapting to greater stock market volatility and say they can live
        with program trading.

        Arg0 : *trace*-1
        Rel : adapting
        Arg2 : to greater stock market volatility

Example: with source

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        [This article]-1 is adapted *trace*-1 from one in the October American
        Spectator.

        Rel : adapted
        Arg1 : *trace*-1
        Arg3 : from one in the October American Spectator