Roleset reach.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "attain, get to":

Roles:

Arg0:thing striving


Arg1:goal, end state

Examples:

basic (-)
Unemployment has reached 27.6% in Azerbaijan.
Arg0:	Unemployment
REL:	reached
Arg1:	27.6%
Argm-LOC:	in Azerbaijan




Proper parse (-)
Deere & Co reached a tentative agreement with the machinists' union at its Horicon Wis plant.
Arg0:	Deere & Co
REL:	reached
Arg1:	a tentative agreement with the machinists' union at its Horicon Wis plant.




Bogus parse (-)
Any potential acquirer will have to reach some kind of accord with the company's employees.
Arg0:	Any potential acquirer
Argm-MOD:	will
REL:	reach
Arg1:	some kind of accord
Argm:	with the company's employees

Treebank often gives a bogus parse for (eg) "reach an agreement with John". Clearly it should be [reach] [an agreement with John], but Treebank has chosen [reach] [an agreement] [with John], probably because you can extract the agreement (ie, in passive sentences) but leave the PP "with John" behind. You'll have to follow the two examples above based on which syntactic parse is given.

Roleset reach.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "contact":

Roles:

Arg0:reacher


Arg1:reached

Examples:

passive (-)
Canadian Pacific couldn't be reached *trace* for comment.
Arg1:	*trace=Canadian Pacific*
Argm-MOD:	could
Argm-NEG:	n't
REL:	reached
Argm-PNC:	for comment

Almost all examples of this roleset are passive.

Roleset reach.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "stretch, grasp":

Roles:

Arg0:reacher


Arg1:body part


Arg2:goal

Examples:

with particle of direction (-)
I had to reach back to French 101.
Arg0:	I
REL:	reach
Argm-DIR:	back
Arg2-to:	French 101




with body part (-)
John reached out his hand to his sister.
Arg0:	John
REL:	reached
Argm-DIR:	out
Arg1:	his hand
Arg2-to:	his sister