Roleset appoint.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "name to a position, hire":

Roles:

Arg0:appointer, employer


Arg1:appointee, employee


Arg2:job, position

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle
There should have been a trace; treebank forgot to put it in.

passive, NP job (-)
Bertin Nadeau, newly appointed chairman and interim chief executive of Provigo, wouldn't say if Mr. Lortie was asked to leave.
Arg1:	Bertin Nadeau
ArgM-TMP:	newly
REL:	appointed
Arg2:	chairman and interim chief executive of Provigo

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


all args, sentential job (-)
Soo Line said its board appointed a special committee of independent directors to study the proposal.
Arg0:	its board
REL:	appointed
Arg1:	a special committee
ArgM:	of independent directors
Arg2:	to study the proposal