Predicate: unify
Frames file for 'unify' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry
22.2, Framenet entry Amalgamate.
Roleset id: unify.01 , join together, vncls: 22.2
Roles:
Arg0: joiner, agent
Arg1: (first) thing(s) being unified
Arg2: other things, if separate from arg1
Arg3: unified whole
Example: simple transitive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
Arguing that the separate financial marketplaces acted as one,
and concluding that the crash had ``raised the possibility of a
full-scale financial system breakdown,'' the presidential task
force called for establishing [a super-regulator]-1 to oversee the
markets, to make margins consistent across markets, *trace*-1 to
unify clearing systems and to install circuit breakers.
Arg0 : *trace*
Rel : unify
Arg1 : clearing systems
Example: separate things
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John unified his sense of fair play with Mary's violent tendencies.
Arg0 : John
Rel : unified
Arg1 : his sense of fair play
Arg2 : with Mary's violent tendencies
Example: pieces and whole
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
[John's sense of fair play and Mary's violent tendencies]-1 were
unified *trace*-1 into a very unhealthy living situation.
Rel : unified
Arg1 : *trace*
Arg3 : into a very unhealthy living situation
Example: adjectival
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
That's why ``we have been working hard to develop a single, more
unified presence in Europe,'' said A.J.C. Smith, Marsh &
McLennan's president, at a London news conference yesterday.
ArgM-EXT : more
Rel : unified
Arg1 : presence