Predicate: commit

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

Roleset id: commit.01 , pledge, designate to, vncls: 79 92, framnet: Commitment , Imposing_obligation , Institutionalization , Memorization

commit.01: Member of VNcls dedicate-79, confine-92-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: causal agent (vnrole: 79-agent, 92-agent)
        Arg1: entity committed (vnrole: 79-theme, 92-theme)
        Arg2: committed to (vnrole: 79-proposition, 92-destination)

Example: just transitive

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        The banks jointly committed $1.2 billion of financing, subject to
        certain conditions, McCaw said.

        Arg0: The banks
        Argm-mnr: jointly
        Rel: committed
        Arg1: $1.2 billion of financing, subject to certain conditions

Example: passive with committed-to

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        ``This tells you AT&T-1 is serious about continuing to manage
        their cost structure and is committed *trace*-1 to 20%-a-year
        earnings growth,'' said Jack Grubman, an analyst with PaineWebber
        Inc.

        Rel: committed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: to 20%-a-year earnings growth

Example: passive often interpreted as ADJP

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        In an interview Wednesday with Dow Jones Professional Investor
        Report, Mr. Stevens said, ``We're in no way committed to a deal
        going through at all.

        Arg1: We
        Argm-mnr: in no way
        Rel: committed
        Arg2: to a deal going through at all

Example: but not always

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        He added [the airline]-1 isn't committed *trace*-1 to going forward with
        any new bid, and hasn't participated in bankers' efforts to revive
        the transaction that collapsed.

        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: committed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: to going forward with any new bid

Example: different sense, same syntax

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Mary committed John to a mental asylum.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: committed
        Arg1: John
        Arg2: to a mental asylum

Roleset id: commit.02 , commit a crime, vncls: , framnet: Committing_crime

commit.02: No VNcls.

Roles:

        Arg0: criminal
        Arg1: crime

Example: I am not a criminal!

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: both,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Yesterday, U.S. Judge Alcee Hastings faced his jury -- the full
        U.S. Senate -- and said, ``I-1 am not guilty of *trace*-1 having committed any
        crime.''

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: committed
        Arg1: any crime