Predicate: prime

Roleset id: prime.01 , make ready, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

prime.01: PRIME-V NOTES: Adjectival and verbal senses actually aren't very closely related. Hmm. (from prime.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
prime (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: agent, primer
        Arg1-PPT: thing made ready
        Arg2-PRP: ready for what?

Example: adjectival

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

        Rep. Gonzalez seems primed [*-1] to lash out at Mr. Wall when hearings resume Thursday with testimony by two federal regulators from San Francisco, William Black and Mike Patriarca.

        Arg1: Rep. Gonzalez
        Rel: primed
        Argm-pnc: [*-1] to lash out at Mr. Wall when hearings resume Thursday with testimony by two federal regulators from San Francisco , William Black and Mike Patriarca

Example: verbal

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

        [*-2]-3 Perhaps primed [*-3]by the daily diet of radio and TV reporters thrusting microphones into people's faces and asking how they ``feel'' about one calamity or another, [fellow reporters and civilians who spied my press credential]-2 were eager to chat.

        Rel: primed
        Arg1: [*-3]
        Arg0: by the daily diet of radio and TV reporters thrusting microphones into people's faces and asking how they ``feel'' about one calamity or another