Roleset devise.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "come up with":

Roles:

Arg0:deviser


Arg1:thing dreamed up


Arg2:secondary predication on arg1

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


simple transitive (-)
Lawmakers representing some of the cleaner utilities have been quietly working with the White House to devise ways to tinker with the administration bill to address their acid-rain concerns.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Lawmakers representing some of the cleaner utilities
REL:	devise
Arg1:	ways to tinker with the administration bill to address their acid-rain concerns

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


with 2dy predication (-)
Keeping the mood light, the two then chanted and chortled their way through some murderous polyrhythms, devised *trace* by Mr. Douglas as an alternative to Hindemith's dry theory-teaching techniques, and then, with Mr. Gomez, soared and improvised on the composer's tight ``Bebop Etudes.''
REL:	devised
Arg1:	*trace* -> some murderous polyrhythms
Arg0-by:	Mr. Douglas
Arg2-as:	as an alternative to Hindemith's dry theory-teaching techniques

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


with purpose (-)
They devised a 69-point scale -- awarding one point for each subskill measured on the CAT test -- to rate the closeness of test preparatives to the fifth-grade CAT.
Arg0:	They
REL:	devised
Arg1:	a 69-point scale
ArgM:	-- awarding one point for each subskill measured on the CAT test --
ArgM-PNC:	to rate the closeness of test preparatives to the fifth-grade CAT

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


watch for to-clauses (-)
The system worked the way *trace* we devised it to work *trace*.''
Arg0:	we
REL:	devised
Arg1:	it
Arg2:	to work
ArgM-MNR:	*trace* -> *trace* -> the way