Frames file for 'witness' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset witness.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to observe, see, or be a site of ":
Roles:
Arg0:agent, entity witnessing
Arg1:thing witnessed
Examples:
transitive (-)
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
( In other words , after some highly visible dithering and public airing of differences , the administration has come down on the side of those who [*T*-2] believe that what we are witnessing [*T*-3] from Berlin to Siberia is a good thing [0] [*T*-4] to be welcomed [*-1] , rather than a new thing [0] [*T*-5] to be feared [*-6] or viewed [*-6] with suspicion . )
Arg0:
we
REL:
witnessing
Arg1:
[*T*-3] -> what -> [*T*-2]
ArgM-LOC:
from Berlin to Siberia
non-agentive subject (-)
person: third
tense: present
aspect: perfect
voice: active
form: participle
He adds : `` The junk market has witnessed some trouble and now some people think that if the equity market gets creamed [*-1] that means [0] the economy will be terrible and that 's bad for junk .