Predicate: cease

cease: Frames file for 'cease' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 55.1, other framed members include begin, commence, proceed, and resume. Logically, also 'stop' and 'end'. Created by importing 'stop' and replacing lemmas. I actually think the instrumental examples sound pretty bad; I doubt any real instruments will occur.

Roleset id: cease.01 , stop, vncls: 55.1, framnet:

cease.01: I really didn't think this sentence was going to end this way. Came as rather a surprise to me, to be honest.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of ceasing, Agent (vnrole: 55.1-agent)
        Arg1: Theme (action or object being stopped) (vnrole: 55.1-theme)
        Arg2: Instrument

Example: transitive, NP theme

        The ban won't cease privately-funded tissue-transplant research.

        Arg0: The ban
        Argm-mod: wo
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: cease
        Arg1: privately-funded tissue-transplant research

Example: transitive, S theme

        Lorillard Inc ceased using crocidolite in its Micronite cigarette
        filters in 1956.

        Rel: ceased
        Arg1: [Lorillard Inc][using crocidolite in its Micronite cigarette filters]
        Argm-tmp: in 1956

Example: made up examples with instrument

        Mary ceased John's incessant chattering with a deep passionate kick
        to the groin.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: ceased
        Arg1: John's incessant chattering
        Arg3: with a deep passionate kick to the groin.

Example: and proving its an arg

        Mary's kick to the groin ceased John's incessant chattering.

        Arg3: Mary's kick to the groin
        Rel: ceased
        Arg1: John's incessant chattering