Predicate: nail

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

Roleset id: nail.01 , to establish firmly, vncls: 22.4

Roles:

        Arg0: establisher
        Arg1: entity nailed

Example: transitive

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

        But [Dr. Vogelstein]-2 had yet [*-2] to nail the identity of the gene that [*T*-1] , if [*-3] damaged [*-4] , flipped a colon cell into full-blown malignancy .

        Arg0 : [*-2]
        Rel : nail
        Arg1 : the identity of the gene that [*T*-1] , if [*-3] damaged [*-4] , flipped a colon cell into full-blown malignancy


Predicate: nail_down

Roleset id: nail.02 , to narrow down, finalize, vncls: 22.4

Roles:

        Arg0: finalizer
        Arg1: entity nailed down

Example: transitive with adverbials

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

        Discrepancies go unexplained in `` Confidential '' ( one ex-player claims [0] he received $ 4,000 to $ 5,000 [*U*] for his season football tickets while others said [0] theirs brought only a few hundred dollars ) , and when Mr. Keteyian ca n't nail down something , like who [*T*-2] really owned a car driven [*] by Husker tailback Doug Dubose [*T*-1] , he simply reprints his notes .

        Arg0 : Mr. Keteyian
        ArgM-MOD : ca
        ArgM-NEG : n't
        Rel : [ nail] [ down]
        Arg1 : something , like who [*T*-2] really owned a car driven [*] by Husker tailback Doug Dubose
        ArgM-TMP : [*T*-1]
        ArgM-RCL : when