Predicate: imitate

Frames file for 'imitate' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus.

Roleset id: imitate.01 , to use or follow as a model, vncls: 25.4

Roles:

        Arg0: imitator
        Arg1: entity imitated

Example: passive

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

        The appeals court held : `` When a distinctive voice of a professional singer is widely known [*-3] and is deliberately imitated in order [*] to sell a product [*T*-2] , the sellers have appropriated what [*T*-1] is not theirs . ''

        Arg1 : a distinctive voice of a professional singer
        ArgM-MNR : deliberately
        Rel : imitated
        ArgM-PNC : in order [*] to sell a product
        ArgM-TMP : [*T*-2]
        ArgM-RCL : When

Example: transitive

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

        Peter Laird , a Los Angeles lawyer for Ms. Midler , said , `` We believe that the verdict reaffirms her position [*RNR*-1] and our position [*RNR*-1] that advertisers and advertising agencies can not with impunity imitate the voices of well-known performers .

        Arg0 : advertisers and advertising agencies
        ArgM-MOD : can
        ArgM-NEG : not
        ArgM-MNR : with impunity
        Rel : imitate
        Arg1 : the voices of well-known performers