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:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
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:

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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:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
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]