Roleset predate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "come before, temporally":

Roles:

Arg1:thing coming before


Arg2:thing coming after

Examples:

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


nice (-)
John C. Burton, an accounting professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business, said ``there's a lot of emotion involved in the name of an accounting firm with a long history and with roots in England, where accounting predates the U.S.''
Arg1:	accounting
REL:	predates
Arg2:	the U.S.
ArgM-LOC:	*trace* -> where -> England