Roleset dish.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "put onto a dish":

Roles:

Arg0:disher


Arg1:food

Examples:

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


restaurant usage only? (-)
John dished the potatoes.
Arg0:	John
REL:	dished
Arg1:	the potatoes

Roleset dish.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "distribute":

Roles:

Arg0:distributor


Arg1:thing distributed


Arg2:distributed to

Examples:

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


automatically generated (-)
About the only way that USX now can get out of steel is to dish it out , piece by piece , in separate joint ventures , he adds .
Arg0:
REL:	[ dish] [ out]
Arg1:	it
ArgM-MNR:	piece by piece
ArgM-LOC:	in separate joint ventures

To my ear 'dish out' cannot take arg2. It might appear, though.

Roleset dish.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "serve":

Roles:

Arg0:server


Arg1:thing served


Arg2:served to

Examples:

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


dinner time (-)
John dished up a delicious dinner for Mary.
Arg0:	John
REL:	dished up
Arg1:	a delicious dinner
Arg2-for:	Mary

Usually will not take arg2.