Roleset pave.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "cover a wide flat surface":

Roles:

Arg0:applier of cover, agent


Arg1:surface


Arg2:paving material

Examples:

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


passive (-)
We have as much nostalgia as anyone for those leafy, breezy days in Washington when honorable men and women dickered over budgets and even log-rolled a bit to see that the bridges got build, roads paved *trace*, soldiers paid or that the desperately poor were cared for.
REL:	paved
Arg1:	*trace* -> roads

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


all args (-)
Tired of mowing, John paved his front yard with asphalt.
Argm:	Tired of mowing
Arg0:	John
REL:	paved
Arg1:	his front yard
Arg2-with:	asphalt

Roleset pave.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "pave the way: prepare":

Roles:

Arg0:preparer


Arg1:the way


Arg2:for what

Examples:

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


typical usage (-)
Were it true that a weak currency paves the way for trade surpluses, then presumably Argentina would be the center of today's global economy.
Arg0:	a weak currency
REL:	paves
Arg1:	the way
Arg2-for:	trade surpluses

Treebank uses at least three different syntaces for this usage.