Predicate: auction_off

auction_off: Frames file for 'auction' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: auction.01 , sell at auction, vncls: , framnet: -

Roles:

        highest bidder/buyer will definitely occur at some point; I'm not sure about price and benefactive though.
        Arg0: seller
        Arg1: sold
        Arg2: highest bidder
        Arg3: Price Paid
        Arg4: Benefactive

Example: just transitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: infinitive

        Indeed. Recently, [the trust]-1 failed *trace*-1 to auction off the
        paper mill, a bank, an office building and a small cotton-ginning
        plant.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: [ auction] [ off]
        Arg1: the paper mill, a bank, an office building and a small cotton-ginning plant


Predicate: auction

Roleset id: auction.02 , sell at auction, no particle, vncls: 54.4, framnet: -

auction.02: VerbNet class price-54.4.

Roles:

        highest bidder/buyer will definitely occur at some point; I'm not sure about price and benefactive though.
        Arg0: seller (vnrole: 54.4-agent)
        Arg1: sold (vnrole: 54.4-theme)
        Arg2: highest bidder
        Arg3: Price Paid (vnrole: 54.4-value)
        Arg4: Benefactive

Example: just transitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: infinitive

        Indeed. Recently, [the trust]-1 failed *trace*-1 to auction the
        paper mill, a bank, an office building and a small cotton-ginning
        plant.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: auction
        Arg1: the paper mill, a bank, an office building and a small cotton-ginning plant