Frameset - back-v

Predicate: back

back: Frames file for 'back' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'face' and 'support'

Roleset id: back.01 , support, vncls: , framnet:

back.01: Could be interpreted as phrasal "back_out" also (but I don't like that). Follow Treebank's parsing.

Roles:

Arg0: supporter
Arg1: thing being supported

Example: support

        ...asking [him]-1 *trace*-1 to back a Palestinian bid to joing the committee.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: back
        Arg1: a Palestinian bid to joing the committee

Example: cease support

        The big brokerage firms back out of program trading for their own
        accounts or for clients.

        Arg0: The big brokerage firms
        Rel: back
        Arg1: out of program trading
        Argm-pnc: for their own accounts or for clients.

Example: cease support, with NP

        Eastern Airline's creditors committee backed off a move to come up
        with its own alternative proposals to the carrier's bankruptcy
        reorganization plans.

        Arg0: Eastern Airline's creditors committee
        Rel: backed
        Arg1: off a move to come up with its own alternative proposals to the carrier's bankruptcy reorganization plans.

Roleset id: back.02 , move backwards, vncls: , framnet:

back.02: Could be interpreted as phrasal "back_away" also. Follow the parsing given by Treebank.

Roles:

Arg0: causer of backwards motion
Arg1: entity in motion

Example: retreat

        The Soviets might back away from the current conciliatory attitude

        Arg1: The Soviets
        Argm-mod: might
        Rel: back
        Argm-dir: away from the current conciliatory attitude

Roleset id: back.03 , face backwards, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: looker, facer
Arg1: looked at, faced

Example: with PP

        John's house backs onto the city dump.

        Arg0: John's house
        Rel: backs
        Arg1: onto the city dump

Predicate: back_up

Roleset id: back_up.04 , back up: support, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: supporter
Arg1: thing being supported

Example: Reaganomics

        [You]-1 should quote Mr. Reagan, the man who believed trees cause air
        pollution, *trace*-1 to back up your position that economics is more
        important than the Earth.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: back up
        Arg1: your position that economics is more important than the Earth.

Roleset id: back_up.06 , back up: move backwards, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: causer of backwards motion
Arg1: entity in motion

Example: oops

        The garbage truck backed up into John's living room.

        Arg1: The garbage truck
        Rel: backed up
        Argm-dir: into John's living room

Example: double oops

        John backed the garbage truck up into Mary's living room.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: backed up
        Arg1: the garbage truck
        Argm-dir: into Mary's living room

Roleset id: back_up.08 , back up: face backwards, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: looker, facer
Arg1: looked at, faced

Example: icky

        John's house backs up to the city dump.

        Arg0: John's house
        Rel: backs up
        Arg1: to the city dump

Roleset id: back_up.09 , back up: preserve data, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: preserver, agent
        Arg1: data
        Arg2: permanent storage device

Example: instrumental subject

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

        Exabyte Corp., a Boulder, Colo., maker of [high-capacity tape
        cartridge systems]*-1 used [*] [*-1] to back up computer disk drives,
        started OTC trading with the symbol EXBT.

        Arg2: [*-1]
        Rel: [back] [up]
        Arg1: computer disk drives

Roleset id: back_up.10 , back up: traffic, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg1: traffic

Example: Schuylkill expressway

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

        The companies block traffic much as highway on-ramps are blocked
        when traffic backs up.

        Arg1: traffic
        Rel: backs up

Predicate: back_off

Roleset id: back_off.11 , back off: to retreat from, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: retreator
Arg1: location or thing retreating from

Example: intransitive

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

        When his arm came up [*T*-1] I ducked away but it caught me on the side of the neck , [*-2] watering my eyes , and I backed off [*-3] to cough .

        Arg0: I
        Rel: [ backed] [ off]
        Argm-pnc: [*-3] to cough