Roleset understand.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "understand":

Roles:

Arg0:understander


Arg1:thing understood


Arg2:attribute of arg1

Examples:

grok (-)
Program trading is here to stay, and computers are here to stay, and we just need *trace* to understand it.''
Arg0:	*trace* -> we
REL:	understand
Arg1:	it

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: ns


split thing understood (-)
But Mr. Corr , a stunt pilot in his spare time , was understood [*-1] to be frustrated [*-2] by what he regarded [*T*-3] as limited freedom under Mr. Lorenzo .
Arg1:	[Mr. Corr , a stunt pilot in his spare time][[*-1] to be frustrated [*-2] by what he regarded [*T*-3] as limited freedom under Mr. Lorenzo]
REL:	understood

The syntax will determine the difference between the first and second examples; by all rights "John to be an idiot" should be a single constituent which could be called Arg1 all by itself, but there might be cases with extraction ("John was understood to be an idiot") or other cases where the two args are separate. Try to keep things as a single arg, if possible, but don't use the [A] command--just use args --1 and 2.


it support (-)
It's understood that MGM/UA recently contacted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which made two failed bids for the movie studio, to see if the company was still interested.
REL:	understood
Arg1:	MGM/UA recently contacted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which made two failed bids for the movie studio, to see if the company was still interested

Latter examples is particularly interesting, as it's effectively passivized, but the utterance is apparently too big to put in subject position. Cool. person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: ns


with attribute (-)
The three most important things [0] [*] to understand [*T*-1] about Mr. Allen is that he is a black conservative intellectual -- a triple threat to the liberal establishment .
REL:	understand
Arg1:	[*T*-1] -> [*] -> [0] -> The three most important things
Arg2-about:	Mr. Allen