Predicate: bear

bear: Frames file for 'bear' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Two senses, comparison to 'hold' and 'move'.

Roleset id: bear.01 , hold, support, endure, vncls: 31.2, framnet: Bringing , Bearing_arms

bear.01: Yes, this is really several different senses, but they all take the same syntax.

Roles:

        Arg0: holder (vnrole: 31.2-experiencer)
        Arg1: thing held (vnrole: 31.2-theme)
        Arg2: benefactive (vnrole: 31.2-predicate)
        Arg3: secondary attribute of thing held

Example: endure

        ...profit-taking weighed on the market, with blue-chips bearing
        the brunt of the selling.

        Arg0: blue-chips
        Rel: bearing
        Arg1: the brunt of the selling

Example: hold

        ``...'' said Finis Conner, chief executive officer and founder of
        the firm that *trace* bears his name.

        Arg0: *trace* -> that -> the firm
        Rel: bears
        Arg1: his name

Example: with attribute

        The new notes will bear interest at 5.5% through July 31, 1991,
        and thereafter at 10%.

        Arg0: The new notes
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: bear
        Arg1: interest
        Arg3: at 5.5% through July 31, 1991, and thereafter at 10%

Roleset id: bear.02 , bear children, vncls: , framnet: Birth

Roles:

        Arg0: mother
        Arg1: child

Example: durn young'uns

        I doubt the active form will ever occur; really this is a deponent verb and only has the arg1.
        ``Most of them weren't even born the last time the painting was
        displayed publicly,'' he says.

        Arg1: Most of them
        Argm-neg: n't
        Argm-dis: even
        Rel: born
        Argm-tmp: the last time the painting was displayed publicly

Roleset id: bear.03 , move, vncls: , framnet: Path_shape , Change_direction

bear.03: OK, not a great example, but you get the idea and I doubt this usage will come up anyway.

Roles:

        Arg1: entity in motion

Example: name the movie

        "*trace* Bear left! Move the thing! And, that other thing!"

        Arg1: *trace*
        Rel: Bear
        Argm-dir: left

Roleset id: bear.06 , has relation to, vncls: 86.2, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg1: topic (vnrole: 86.2-theme1)
        Arg2: related topic (vnrole: 86.2-theme2)

Example: bearly there?

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

        Now, scholars in fulfilling their responsibility do not claim the
        right to invade every collection of papers that [*T*-1] bears upon
        their topics of investigation.

        Arg1: [*T*-1] -> that -> every collection of papers
        Rel: bears
        Arg2: upon their topics of investigation


Predicate: bear_up

Roleset id: bear.04 , survive, exist, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg1: entity existing

Example: poor John

        Considering everything I've put him through, John is bearing up
        surprisingly well.

        Argm-dis: Considering everything I've put him through
        Arg1: John
        Rel: bearing up
        Argm-mnr: surprisingly well


Predicate: bear_out

Roleset id: bear.05 , bear out: confirm? support again?, vncls: , framnet:

bear.05: I'm not sure what the sense is here; hopefully another example will come along and clear things up. If you find the example, please send it along to me.

Roles:

        Arg0: confirmer, agent
        Arg1: thing confirmed, patient

Example: only example so far

        That was borne *trace* out by the Justice Department's decision
        to settle the case.

        Rel: [ borne] [ out]
        Arg1: *trace* -> That
        Arg0-by: the Justice Department's decision to settle the case