Frameset

Predicate suffice:

Frames file for 'suffice' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry.

Roleset suffice.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "be sufficient":

Roles:

Arg0:sufficient thing

Examples:

present

active

full

clearest syntax (-)
`But that won't suffice.`
ArgM-DIS:	But
Arg0:	that
ArgM-MOD:	wo
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	suffice

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full
raised subordinate subject (-)

But there was little selling pressure, and even small orders at the lower levels sufficed [*-1] to bring the market back to Friday's opening levels.

Arg0: [ even small orders at the lower levels] [ [*-1] to bring the market back to Friday's opening levels]

REL: sufficed

raised subordinate subject (-)
`But there was little selling pressure, and even small orders at the lower levels sufficed [*-1] to bring the market back to Friday's opening levels.`
Arg0:	[ even small orders at the lower levels] [ [*-1] to bring the market back to Friday's opening levels]
REL:	sufficed

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full
it-cleft and something else (-)

[*] Suffice it [*] to say that if this were a New York Yankees-Mets series, or one between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox (hey, it's possible), you'd need uniformed police in every other seat to separate opposing fans, and only the suicidal would bifurcate their bonnets.

REL: Suffice

Arg0: [*] to say that if this were a New York Yankees-Mets series, or one between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox (hey, it's possible), you'd need uniformed police in every other seat to separate opposing fans, and only the suicidal would bifurcate their bonnets

it-cleft and something else (-)
`[] Suffice it [] to say that if this were a New York Yankees-Mets series, or one between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox (hey, it's possible), you'd need uniformed police in every other seat to separate opposing fans, and only the suicidal would bifurcate their bonnets.`
REL:	Suffice
Arg0:	[*] to say that if this were a New York Yankees-Mets series, or one between the Chicago Cubs and White Sox (hey, it's possible), you'd need uniformed police in every other seat to separate opposing fans, and only the suicidal would bifurcate their bonnets

The last sentence is actually "To say....bonnets suffices." There's an it-cleft to move the heavy phrase rightwards, then a stylistic right dislocation of the it itself! Coolness.