Predicate: bill
bill: Frames file for 'bill' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Verbnet entries 29.2 and 54.5, other framed members include
classify, count, define, describe, emply, establish, intend,
portray, rank, recommend, regard, treat, view (but those don't seem
right to me); and concern (and that doesn't seem right at all.) No
Framenet entry. Comparison with 'charge'.
Roleset id: bill.01 , charge a fee, vncls: 54.5, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: seller, biller (vnrole: 54.5-Agent)
Arg1: asking price, amount of bill (vnrole: 54.5-Asset)
Arg2: buyer, billed (vnrole: 54.5-Recipient)
Arg3: commodity (vnrole: 54.5-Cause)
Example: no asking price
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: gerund
According to one person familiar with the airline, [the buy-out
group -- led by United's pilots union and UAL Chairman Stephen
Wolf --]-2 has begun *trace*-2 billing UAL for fees and expenses it
owes to investment bankers, law firms and banks.
Arg0: *trace*-2
Rel: billing
Arg2: UAL
Arg3: for fees and expenses it owes to investment
bankers, law firms and banks
Example: with amount of bill
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Mary billed John a hundred dollars for a single kiss. And he paid
it.
Arg0: Mary
Rel: billed
Arg2: John
Arg1: a hundred dollars
Arg3: for a single kiss
Roleset id: bill.02 , describe, vncls: 29.2, framnet:
bill.02: I'm betting this sense always occurs in the passive.
Roles:
Arg0: describer (vnrole: 29.2-Agent)
Arg1: thing described (vnrole: 29.2-Theme)
Arg2: secondary attribute, described-as (vnrole: 29.2-Predicate)
Example: passivized
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
[That complex bid]-1 was billed *trace*-1 as France's largest takeover
ever (this one is slightly smaller).
Rel: billed
Arg1: *trace*-1
Arg2: as France 's largest takeover ever