Roleset appropriate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to take possession of":

Roles:

Arg0:taker of possession, agent


Arg1:entity appropriated

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


transitive (-)
The appeals court held : `` When a distinctive voice of a professional singer is widely known [*-3] and is deliberately imitated in order [*] to sell a product [*T*-2] , the sellers have appropriated what [*T*-1] is not theirs . ''
Arg0:	the sellers
REL:	appropriated
Arg1:	what [*T*-1] is not theirs

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


transitive with adverbials (-)
And while [*] setting a statutory limit of $ 1.6 billion [*U*] on the automated space probe , the conference appropriated $ 30 million [*U*] for the start-up of the CRAF-Cassini mission , a successor to the Voyager space probe .
ArgM-TMP:	while [*] setting a statutory limit of $ 1.6 billion [*U*] on the automated space probe
Arg0:	the conference
REL:	appropriated
Arg1:	$ 30 million [*U*]
ArgM-PNC:	for the start-up of the CRAF-Cassini mission , a successor to the Voyager space probe