Roleset tender.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "light verb with 'offer' or 'bid'":

Roles:

Arg0:entity making offer/bid


Arg1:offer/bid, or shares if being tendered to an offer


Arg2:offered to

Examples:

expected transitive active (-)
It shed about 7 pence, however, after dealers said the market was disappointed that Ford didn't move *trace* to tender a bid for control of the company.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Ford
REL:	tender
Arg1:	a bid for control of the company




expected passive (-)
The offer, which was due to expire yesterday, is conditional on 50.1% of Dunkin's common shares, on a fully diluted basis, being tendered *trace* and on the withdrawal of the company's poison pill rights plan.
REL:	tendered
Arg1:	*trace* -> 50.1 % of Dunkin's common shares




active, unexpected arg2 (-)
LIN Broadcasting surged 4 5/8 to 112 5/8; LIN and BellSouth sweetened their merger agreement in an attempt to keep shareholders from *trace* tendering their shares to McCaw Cellular Communications.
Arg0:	*trace* -> shareholders
REL:	tendering
Arg1:	their shares
Arg2-to:	McCaw Cellular Communications




passive, unexpected arg2 (-)
At the close of business Thursday, Ciba-Geigy and Chiron said 11,580 common shares had been tendered *trace* to their offer.
REL:	tendered
Arg1:	*trace* -> 11,580 common shares
Arg2-to:	their offer

WSJ usage does not accord at all with my intuition. It could be that this will have to be revamped to bring it more in line with 'offer'.