Roleset conceive.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "think of":

Roles:

Arg0:conceiver, thinker


Arg1:thought


Arg2:attribute

Examples:

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


oddly transitive (-)
Market segmentation in cars isn't new, but it's far more extensive than when Alfred P. Sloan Jr. conceived the idea 50 years ago.
Arg0:	Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
REL:	conceived
Arg1:	the idea
ArgM-TMP:	50 years ago

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


more typically prepositional (-)
Try as they might, they just can't conceive of life without black workers.
Arg0:	they
ArgM-DIS:	just
ArgM-MOD:	ca
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	conceive
Arg1-of:	life without black workers

person: third tense: past aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


with attribute (-)
The restaurant was conceived *trace* as a sparkling, crystalline ``geode.''
REL:	conceived
Arg1:	*trace* -> The restaurant
Arg2-as:	a sparkling, crystalline ``geode

Roleset conceive.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "make babies":

Roles:

Arg0:parent(s)

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: gerund


intransitive (-)
Some women clearly have no trouble *trace* eventually conceiving again: The studies have reported repeaters in their programs.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Some women
ArgM-TMP:	eventually
REL:	conceiving
ArgM-TMP:	again

This sense could take an object, probably, which would be the baby.