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:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
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