Predicate: trail
Roleset id: trail.01 , be subsequent, temporally or spatially, or less than, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
trail.01: TRAIL-V NOTES: Comparison to 'follow'. Member of Vncls chase-51.6. (from trail.01-v)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| trail (v.) | Cotheme | |
Roles:
Arg0-PAG: thing following (vnrole: 51.6-Agent)
Arg1-PPT: thing followed (vnrole: 51.6-Theme)
Example: be less than
Hit by higher costs and lower sales, Caterpillar Inc. said third-quarter earnings tumbled 43% and full-year earnings will trail last year's results.
Arg0: full-year earnings
Argm-mod: will
Rel: trail
Arg1: last year's results
Example: ARG0 and ARG1
" The year before last its total exports were third on the mainland , trailing only Shenzhen 's and Shanghai 's , " says Jiang Suwu , a graduate of Wuhan University 's Chinese department who came south to work in the planning department of a Taiwan firm in Dongguan .
Arg0: its total exports
Rel: trailing
Arg1: only Shenzhen 's and Shanghai 's
Roleset id: trail.03 , drag, draw, trail, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
trail.03: TRAIL-V NOTES: No Vncls. (from trail.03-v)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| trail (v.) | | |
Roles:
Arg0-PAG: dragger, drawer
Arg1-PPT: trailer
Example: redundant locative
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
In the very front rank , [two men]-1 were wounded and staggered along , [*-1]trailing blood behind them .
Arg0: [*-1]
Rel: trailing
Arg1: blood
Argm-loc: behind them
Example: stationary trailing
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
His rock was to the right of a V-shaped inlet , a big , brown , lumpy rock trailing seaweed whiskers .
Arg0: a big , brown , lumpy rock
Rel: trailing
Arg1: seaweed whiskers
Example: inverted syntax
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
He had taken a carbine down from the wall and it trailed from his hand , the stock bumping on the wood floor .
Arg1: it
Rel: trailed
Arg0: from his hand
Argm-adv: the stock bumping on the wood floor
Predicate: trail_off
Roleset id: trail_off.02 , trail off: come to an end, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
trail_off.02: TRAIL_OFF-V NOTES: No Vncls. (from trail.02-v)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| trail_off (v.) | | |
Roles:
Arg1-PPT: thing ending
Example: a sticky end
Commodore has said it expects sales to rebound, but market researchers have said that sales of the low-end products may finally be trailing off.
Arg1: sales of the low-end products
Argm-mod: may
Argm-tmp: finally
Rel: [ trailing] [ off]