Frameset - maintain-v

Predicate: maintain

Frames file for 'maintain' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'keep'

Roleset id: maintain.01 , keep (up), vncls: 29.5 55.6

Roles:

        Arg0: maintainer
        Arg1: thing maintained
        Arg2: benefactive

Example: transitive agentive

        We-1 have a long history of *trace*-1 maintaining an open
        direct-investment policy.


        Arg0 : *trace*
        Rel : maintaining
        Arg1 : an open direct-investment policy.

Example: maintained belief

        Several traders maintained that the Merc's 12-point circuit-breaker
        aggravated the market slide Oct 13.


        Arg0 : Several traders
        Rel : maintained
        Arg1 : the Merc's 12-point circuit-breaker aggravated the market slide Oct 13

Example: with benefactive

        ...*trace* to maintain commercial air service for an estimated 92
        communities, often in rural areas.


        Arg0 : *trace*
        Rel : maintain
        Arg1 : commercial air service
        Arg2 : for an estimated 92 communities, often in rural areas.