Predicate
pile:
Frames file for 'pile' based on sentences in wsj and automatic
expansion via verbnet.
Roleset pile.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "make a pile":
Roles:
Arg0:piler
Arg1:substance being piled
Arg2:explicit mention of pile
Examples:
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all args (-) |
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person: ns
tense: past
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
In 1987, KKR for the second time piled debt onto Storer's TV
stations, selling them for $1.3 billion to a new entity that was
45%-owned by KKR and 55%-owned by Gillett Corp., which now
operates the SCI TV stations.
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| ArgM-TMP: | In 1987 |
| Arg0: | KKR |
| ArgM-TMP: | for the second time |
| REL: | piled |
| Arg1: | debt |
| Arg2-onto: | Storer's TV stations |
| ArgM-ADV: | selling them for $1.3 billion to a new
entity that was 45%-owned by KKR and 55%-owned by Gillett
Corp, which now operates the SCI TV stations |
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ergative (-) |
|---|
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
Now, though, enormous costs for earthquake relief will pile on top
of outstanding costs for hurricane relief.
|
| ArgM-TMP: | Now |
| ArgM-DIS: | though |
| Arg1: | enormous costs for earthquake relief |
| ArgM-MOD: | will |
| REL: | pile |
| Arg2-on: | top of outstanding costs for hurricane
relief |
Roleset pile.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "move in an untidy fashion":
Roles:
Arg1:entity in motion
Arg2:destination
Examples:
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Keystone Kops (-) |
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person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
They pile out of their truck and furiously begin twisting together
steel pipes linking a giant storage tank to the Sharpshooter, a
freshly drilled oil well two miles deep.
|
| Arg1: | They |
| REL: | pile |
| Arg2-DIR: | out of their truck |
Predicate
pile_up:
Roleset pile.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "make a pile":
Roles:
Examples:
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usually ergative? (-) |
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person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
In the additional time they provide even more order imbalances
might pile up, as would-be sellers finally get their broker on the
phone.
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| ArgM-TMP: | In the additional time they provide |
| Arg1: | even more order imbalances |
| ArgM-MOD: | might |
| REL: | [ pile] [ up] |
| ArgM-TMP: | as would-be sellers finally get their
broker on the phone |
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sometimes agentive (-) |
|---|
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
A celebrity guest, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt,
also won a bet that someone could pile up $150 worth of quarters
on a slanted coin.
|
| Arg0: | someone |
| ArgM-MOD: | could |
| REL: | [ pile] [ up] |
| Arg1: | $150 worth of quarters |
| Arg2-on: | a slanted coin |
I personally would have left the "up" particle out, but whatever.
Predicate
pile_on:
Roleset pile.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "add to a pile":
Roles:
Arg0:agent of piling
Arg1:substance being piled
Arg2:explicit mention of pile
Examples:
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agentive (-) |
|---|
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
SCI TV, which expects to release a plan to restructure $1.3
billion of debt in the next day or so, isn't just another LBO that
*trace* went bad after *trace* piling on debt -- though it did do
that.
|
| Arg0: | *trace* -> *trace* -> that -> just another LBO |
| REL: | [ piling] [ on] |
| Arg1: | debt |
Note that 'pile on' can take several different interpretations,
depending on how the treebankers have assigned the syntax.