Frameset - arrest-v

Predicate: arrest

arrest: Frames file for 'arrest' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry.

Roleset id: arrest.01 , like a criminal, vncls: , framnet: Arrest

arrest.01: I'd expect to see arg2-for more commonly, but I could be mistaken.

Roles:

        Arg0: police
        Arg1: criminal
        Arg2: crime

Example: difficult syntax for crime

        person: ns, tense: present, aspect: perfect, voice: active, form: participle

        Since Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office last
        December, special agents have arrested more than 6,000 federal
        employees on charges ranging from extortion to tax evasion.

        Argm-tmp: Since Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari took office last December
        Arg0: special agents
        Rel: arrested
        Arg1: more than 6,000 federal employees
        Arg2: on charges ranging from extortion to tax evasion

Roleset id: arrest.02 , stop, vncls: , framnet: Cause_to_end

Roles:

Arg0: causer of stopping
Arg1: thing stopping

Example: arrested development

        person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full

        China might stave off a crisis if it acts as forcefully as [it]*-1 did
        [*-1] to arrest the 1985 decline, when Beijing slammed the brakes
        on foreign-exchange spending and devalued the currency.

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: arrest
        Arg1: the 1985 decline
        Argm-tmp: when Beijink slammed the brakes on foreign-exchange spending and devalued the currency