Predicate: alternate
Roleset id: alternate.01 , switch between two possibilities, vncls: 22.2-2-1 86.1, framnet: -
alternate.01: Based on WSJ. VN updated by Julia. Member of VNcls amalgamate-22.2-2-1, correlate-86.1.
Roles:
Arg0: causer of switch (vnrole: 22.2-2-1-agent, 86.1-agent)
Arg1: first or all things switching (vnrole: 22.2-2-1-patient1, 86.1-theme1)
Arg2: secondary possibilities (vnrole: 22.2-2-1-patient2, 86.1-theme2)
Example: agentive, merged possibilities
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
[The two leaders]-1 will meet on Dec. 2 and 3, *trace*-1 alternating the
two days of meetings between a U.S. and a Soviet naval vessel in
the Mediterranean Sea.
Arg0: *trace*-1
Rel: alternating
Arg1: the two days of meetings
Arg2: between a U.S. and a Soviet naval vessel in the Mediterranean Sea
Example: this isn't even a verb!
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: gerund
``Communism will reach its final stage of development in a
feckless Russo -- corporation-socialist in form, nationalistic in
content and Oriental in style -- that will puzzle the world with
alternating feats of realism and recklessness...''
Rel: alternating
Arg1: feats of realism and recklessness