Frameset - verge-v

Predicate: verge

Frames file for 'verge' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus. Comparison with 'approach'.

Roleset id: verge.01 , to approach, come close to, vncls: -

Roles:

Arg1: entity verging
Arg2: entity coming close to

Example: both arguments

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

        But in the week following the 1987 stock crash , the exchange verged on collapse , and the stock and futures markets in Hong Kong were closed [*-1] for four days .

        ArgM-DIS : But
        ArgM-TMP : in the week following the 1987 stock crash
        Arg1 : the exchange
        Rel : verged
        Arg2 : on collapse