Predicate: resign

Roleset id: resign.01 , quit, cease employment, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

resign.01: RESIGN-V NOTES: Ignore the "rather than ..." (from resign.01-v) RESIGNATION-N NOTES: Roleset based on resign.01. No corresponding verbnet class. Framed by Katie. (from resignation.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
resignation (n.)
resign (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: resigner
        Arg1-PPT: position resigned

Example: simple NP

        NW Ayer resigned the account about two weeks ago.

        Arg0: NW Ayer
        Rel: resigned
        Arg1: the account
        Argm-tmp: about two weeks ago

Example: conjoined

        Michael K. Russell will resign rather than relocate to Lower Slobovia.

        Arg0: Michael K. Russell
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: resign

Example: with preposition

        Mr. Stromach resigned as chief executive officer last year.

        Arg0: Mr. Stromach
        Rel: resigned
        Arg1: as chief executive officer
        Argm-tmp: last year

Example: Example with arg 0 and 1

        the resignation of William Allen as chairman of the U.S. CivilRights Commission

        Rel: resignation
        Arg0: of William Allen
        Arg1: as chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission

Example: Example with arg 0 only

        Mr. Wilson 's resignation

        Arg0: Mr. Wilson 's
        Rel: resignation

Example: Another with both args

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

        His resignation from the post

        Arg0: His
        Rel: resignation
        Arg1: from the post

Roleset id: resign.02 , adjectival, giving up (as in despair), Source: , vncls: , framnet:

resign.02: RESIGN-V NOTES: Frames file for 'resign' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus (from resign.02-v predicate notes) RESIGNATION-N NOTES: Added by Julia based on more-nouns. No corresponding VNcls. (from resignation.02-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
resignation (n.)
resign (v.)

Roles:

        Arg1-PPT: experiencer of emotional resignation
        Arg2-GOL: resigned to what

Example: sigh

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

        [Mr. Jones, whose twangy voice and folksy ways belie an intense businessman who works 16-hour days,]-1 is resigned [*-1]to the hefty salaries he pays his players these days.

        Rel: resigned
        Arg1: [*-1]
        Arg2: to the hefty salaries he pays his players these days

Example:

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

        And I know now, as I knew then, that each heart suffered with mine the agony of the Titan in his resignation to fate.

        Arg1: his
        Rel: resignation
        Arg2: to fate

Roleset id: resign.03 , re-sign, sign again, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

resign.03: RESIGN-V NOTES: Context must be used where there is no hyphen to determine if this sense is appropriate. (from resign.03-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
resign (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: Signer
        Arg1-PPT: Talent, contract signed
        Arg2-PRD: Signed as what, what role arg1 is signed as

Example: Really ambiguous...but other sense also seems weird

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

        N W Ayer , the New York agency that had handled the account since 1963 , resigned the account about two weeks ago .

        Arg0: N W Ayer , the New York agency that had handled the account since 1963
        Rel: resigned
        Arg1: te account
        Argm-tmp: about two weeks ago

Example: Music domain, more typical usage

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

        They resigned her in 1969 attempting, once again, to fit her into a pop niche since it seemed her voice was beyond categorization.

        Arg0: They
        Rel: resigned
        Arg1: her
        Argm-tmp: in 1969
        Argm-prp: attempting, once again, to fit her into a pop niche since it seemed her voice was beyond categorization.

Example: Sports domain

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

        Kidd's contract expired and they resigned him as a free agent this past summer.

        Arg0: they
        Rel: resigned
        Arg1: him
        Arg2: as a free agent
        Argm-tmp: this past summer