Roleset greet.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "welcome, receive with a specific reaction":

Roles:

Arg0:greeter


Arg1:thing greeted


Arg2:secondary attribute, greeted as


Arg3:specific reaction

Examples:

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


straight transitive (-)
``I know it's not over,'' a sober-faced Mr. Corry acknowledged while *trace* greeting steel suppliers in New York on Oct. 12 and inviting them to a buffet of salmon and sushi in honor of Kobe Steel Ltd., USX's partner in a steel mill in Lorain, Ohio.
Arg0:	*trace* -> a sober-faced Mr. Corry
REL:	greeting
Arg1:	steel suppliers
ArgM-LOC:	in New York
ArgM-TMP:	on Oct. 12

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


with specific reaction (-)
``If this had happened a few months ago when the atmosphere was still very positive it wouldn't have been greeted *trace* with anything like the impact it has had over the past two weeks,'' says Dennis Jarrett, a market strategist at Kidder Peabody.
ArgM-ADV:	If this had happened a few months ago when the atmosphere was still very positive
ArgM-MOD:	would
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	greeted
Arg1:	*trace* -> it
Arg3-with:	anything like the impact it has had over the past two weeks




with secondary attribute (-)
Mary greeted John as a long-lost enemy.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	greeted
Arg1:	John
Arg2-as:	a long-lost enemy