Frameset - wait-v

Predicate: wait

Frames file for 'wait' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'remain' and 'exist' (so says verbnet).

Roleset id: wait.01 , wait, vncls: 47.1-1

Roles:

        Arg1: wait-er (not waiter, that's the other sense)
        Arg2: thing waited for
        Argm: period of time waited through

Example: time period

        The Treasury may wait until Monday or Tuesday.


        Arg1 : The Treasury
        Argm-MOD : may
        Rel : wait
        Argm-TMP : until Monday or Tuesday

Example: waiting for Godot (you saw that coming, didn't you?)

        That permits them to wait for prices to rise.


        Arg1 : them
        Rel : wait
        Arg2 : for prices to rise

Roleset id: wait.02 , wait tables, vncls: -

Roles:

Arg0: waiter
Arg1: table

Example: starving artist

        John is waiting tables in LA until he gets his big break.


        Arg0 : John
        Rel : waiting
        Arg1 : tables
        Argm-LOC : in LA
        Argm-TMP : until he gets his big break

Predicate: wait_out

Roleset id: wait.03 , wait out: endure, outlast, vncls: -

Roles:

Arg0: thing lasting longer
Arg1: thing lasting shorter

Example: us. 'wait it out'

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

        As the strike enters its 15th day today, some members are getting
        nervous, the spokesman conceded, but [the majority of the 55,000
        Machinists]-1 are prepared [*-1] to ``wait it out as long as it
        takes.''


        Arg0 : [*-1]
        Rel : wait out
        Arg1 : it
        Argm-TMP : as long as it takes