Roleset verge.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to approach, come close to":

Roles:

Arg1:entity verging


Arg2:entity coming close to

Examples:

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


both arguments (-)
But in the week following the 1987 stock crash , the exchange verged on collapse , and the stock and futures markets in Hong Kong were closed [*-1] for four days .
ArgM-DIS:	But
ArgM-TMP:	in the week following the 1987 stock crash
Arg1:	the exchange
REL:	verged
Arg2-on:	collapse