Predicate: appear
appear: Frames file for 'appear' based on survey of initial sentences of big
corpus and comparison with 'seem'
Roleset id: appear.01 , come to be visible, vncls: 48.1.1, framnet:
appear.01: Member of VN class appear-48.1.1.
Roles:
Arg1: thing appearing (vnrole: 48.1.1-theme)
Example: ergative
The latest results appear in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
Arg1: The latest results
Rel: appear
Argm-loc: in today's New England Journal of Medicine
Roleset id: appear.02 , seem, vncls: 109, framnet:
appear.02: I can say this; perhaps the writers in WSJ cannot. Member of VN class seem-109.
Roles:
Arg1: thing seeming (vnrole: 109-theme)
Arg2: viewer (vnrole: 109-predicate)
Example: split thing seeming
*only concatenate if no trace for the first part exists in the second part!
The percentage of lung cancer deaths among the workers at the West
Groton MA paper factory appears to be the highest for any asbestos
workers studied in Western industrialized countries.
Arg1: [The percentage of lung cancer deaths among the workers at the West Groton MA paper factory][to be the highest for any asbestos workers studied in Western industrialized countries]
Rel: appears
Example: don't concatenate when there's a trace!
It appears *trace* to be the sort of situation where anything can happen.
Arg1: *trace* to be the sort of situation where anything can happen
Rel: appears
Example: real it support
It appears that British Airways was angry.
Rel: appears
Arg1: that British Airways was angry
Example: with viewer
To Mary, John appears *trace* to be an idiot.
Arg2: to Mary
Arg1: *trace* to be an idiot
Rel: appears