Roleset trail.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "be subsequent, temporally or spatially, or less than":

Roles:

Arg0:thing following


Arg1:thing followed

Examples:

be less than (-)
Hit by higher costs and lower sales, Caterpillar Inc. said third-quarter earnings tumbled 43% and full-year earnings will trail last year's results.
Arg0:	full-year earnings
ArgM-MOD:	will
REL:	trail
Arg1:	last year's results




spatial (-)
John trailed the ferocious bunny rabbit through the woods.
Arg0:	John
REL:	trailed
Arg1:	the ferocious bunny rabbit
Argm-DIR:	through the woods

Roleset trail.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "drag, draw, trail":

Roles:

Arg0:dragger, drawer


Arg1:trailer

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


redundant locative (-)
In the very front rank , two men were wounded and staggered along , [*-1] trailing blood behind them .
Arg0:	[*-1] -> two men
REL:	trailing
Arg1:	blood
ArgM-LOC:	behind them

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


stationary trailing (-)
His rock [*ICH*-1] was to the right of a V-shaped inlet , a big , brown , lumpy rock trailing seaweed whiskers .
Arg0:	a big , brown , lumpy rock
REL:	trailing
Arg1:	seaweed whiskers

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


inverted syntax (-)
He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand , the stock bumping on the wood floor .
Arg1:	it
REL:	trailed
Arg0-from:	from his hand
ArgM-ADV:	the stock bumping on the wood floor

Roleset trail.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "trail off: come to an end":

Roles:

Arg1:thing ending

Examples:

a sticky end (-)
Commodore has said it expects sales to rebound, but market researchers have said that sales of the low-end products may finally be trailing off.
Arg1:	sales of the low-end products
ArgM-MOD:	may
ArgM-TMP:	finally
REL:	[ trailing] [ off]