Frames file for 'ail' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry.
Roleset ail.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "be ill":
Roles:
Arg0:illness
Arg1:sick entity
Examples:
simple object (-)
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
The ailing company, which has reported net losses for 16
consecutive quarters, said it won't manufacture network computer
systems any more and will greatly reduce its costly direct sales
force.
REL:
ailing
Arg1:
company
complex object (-)
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
A group of Michigan investors has offered to buy Knight-Ridder
Inc.'s ailing Detroit Free Press for $68 million but has left
unclear how the offer will be financed.
REL:
ailing
Arg1:
[ Detroit] [ Free] [ Press]
This is a byproduct of treebank's flat NP structure
with 'agent' (-)
person: third
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
``It's good for what ails you,'' John said of his snake-oil medicine.
Arg0:
what
REL:
ails
Arg1:
you
possibly restricted to the phrase 'what ails you'.