Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate]] FORGO NP2[theme1] (PP[theme2])
Examples:
I may be willing to forgo the chocolate and vino.
Even Williams had enough sense to forgo suggesting an ascent.
I'd forgo a portion of my paycheck for 2-ply at work!
It was the enlightened beings' karma to forgo nirvana in order to help others attain that state.
Daffyd had a warm sour ale that Anna forwent in favor of a vinegary red wine.
Intel forwent its original design for its 64-bit chip for greater 32-bit compatibility.
Mappings:
VerbNet: avoid-52,neglect-75-1-1,exchange-13.6
FrameNet: Avoiding
PropBank: forgo.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary:
NOTE: only 1 example found. Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate]] FORGO PP[destination] NP2[agent] FORGO NP2[theme] (PP[destination]) NP1[theme1] FORGO NP1[theme2]
Examples:
Olivia, Peter and Walter forwent to the Circus to see the dead clowns.
Mappings:
VerbNet: contiguous_location-47.8
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: forgo.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate|organization]] FORGO NP2[theme] (PP[recipient[animate[organization]]
Examples:
If you're serving time in prison, you've foregone your right to unemployment benefits.
If you didn't vote, you've forgone your right to bitch about the result.
You have forgone your right to have any say by deserting your fellow nationalists.
Private cost is the value of the highest-valued option forgone to the one who takes an action.
Benefits are forgone to the private sector.
Coriolanus almost forgoes sympathy by his faults.
Mappings:
VerbNet: contribute-13.2
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: forgo.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2