Roleset fundraise.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "raise funds":

Roles:

Arg0:raiser of funds


Arg2:beneficiary

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


polysythesis? (-)
That impressed Robert B. Pamplin, Georgia-Pacific's chief executive at the time, whom Mr. Hahn had met while *trace* fundraising for the institute.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Mr. Hahn
REL:	fundraising
Arg2-for:	the institute

Ordinarily this would be "so-and-so raised funds for X" with "funds" in the arg1 position, but "funds" has been glommed onto the verbs itself and so cannot exist as an independent arg. For consistency, though, the beneficiary is left in arg2.