Predicate: vacillate
Roleset id: vacillate.01 , not make up ones mind, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
vacillate.01: VACILLATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'vacillate' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3, but this sense of vacillate is for movement only, doesn't fit the .01 sense. (from vacillate.01-v predicate notes)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
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| vacillate (v.) | | |
Roles:
Arg0-PAG: undecided entity
Arg1-PPT: topic, question
Example: pseudo-transitive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
Mr. Bush's problem isn't so much that he seems to be agonizing over the issue as it is that [he]-3 seems [*-3]to vacillate on it.
Arg0: [*-3]
Rel: vacillate
Arg1: on it