Predicate: ensure

Roleset id: ensure.01 , promise, ensure, make sure, guarantee (to do/be), Source: , vncls: , framnet:

ensure.01: ENSURE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'ensure' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. Comparison to 'guarantee'. (from ensure.01-v predicate notes) SURE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on WordNet. Corresponds to VNcls ensure-99. (from sure.02-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sure (j.)Likelihood
ensure (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: agent/cause
        Arg1-PPT: to what (may require concatenation)
        Arg2-GOL: benefactive

Example: sentential guarantee

        Merieux previously said it would ensure its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeover.

        Arg0: it
        Argm-mod: would
        Rel: ensure
        Arg1: its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeover

Example: NP guarantee

        The complaint alleges that the price is ``unfair and grossly inadequate'' and that [the defendants]-1 are seeking *trace*-1 to ensure a ``lockup'' of the purchase of Unitel, thereby discouraging other bids.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: ensure
        Arg1: a ``lockup'' of the purchase of Unitel

Example: both args

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

        *PRO* be sure to lock the doors

        Arg0: *PRO*
        Rel: sure
        Arg1: to lock the doors

Example: concatenation

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

        he is sure to win

        Arg1: [he],[to win]
        Rel: sure


Predicate: sure

Roleset id: sure.02 , believing absolutely, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sure.02: SURE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on WSJ data. (from sure.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sure (j.)Certainty

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: believer
        Arg1-PPT: belief

Example: both args

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

        Peter Anthony , who runs an employment agency in New York , decries program trading as `` limiting the game to a few , '' but he also is n't sure it should be more strictly regulated .

        Arg0: he
        Argm-adv: also
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: sure
        Arg1: it should be more strictly regulated