Predicate: contract

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

Roleset id: contract.01 , get smaller, vncls: 45.4, framnet: Expansion

contract.01: Member of VNcls other_cos-45.4.

Roles:

        Arg1: thing getting smaller (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
        Arg2: EXT
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point

Example: all args

        John's pet sea anemone contracted dramatically, from
        the size of a dinner plate to the sie of a fist.

        Arg1: John's pet sea anemoned
        Rel: contracted
        Arg2: dramatically
        Arg3: from the size of a dinner plate
        Arg4: to the size of a fist

Roleset id: contract.02 , enter into a contract, vncls: 13.5.3 89, framnet: -

contract.02: Member of VNcls hire-13.5.3, settle-89.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of contract (vnrole: 13.5.3-agent, 89-actor1)
        Arg1: reason, purpose (vnrole: 13.5.3-predicate, 89-proposition)
        Arg2: contracted with (vnrole: 13.5.3-theme)

Example: sentential reason

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

        But dry growing conditions in the Red River Valley of Minnesota
        and North Dakota are pushing spot prices of potatoes beyond what
        Michael contracted to pay last spring.

        Arg0: Michael
        Rel: contracted
        Arg1: to pay last spring

Example: with arg2

        John contracted with Mary for conjugal visitation rights.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: contracted
        Arg2: with Mary
        Arg1: for conjugal visitation rights

Roleset id: contract.04 , get, acquire (as of disease), vncls: , framnet: -

contract.04: Cf. 'recover'. No VNcls.

Roles:

        Arg1: sick person, patient
        Arg2: disease
        Arg3: source of disease

Example: no source

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

        ``There's no question that some of those workers and managers
        contracted asbestos-related diseases,'' said Darrell Phillips.

        Arg1: some of those workers and managers
        Rel: contracted
        Arg2: asbestos-related diseases

Example: poor John

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

        John contracted a nasty case of fleas from the neighborhood dogs.

        Arg1: John
        Rel: contracted
        Arg2: a nasty case of fleas
        Arg3: from the neighborhood dogs


Predicate: contract_out

Roleset id: contract.03 , variation on sense two above, vncls: , framnet: -

contract.03: See Vncls Hire-13.5.3, but verb particle construction has no VN entry.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of contract
        Arg1: reason, purpose
        Arg2: contract out with/to whom?

Example: NP reason

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

        By moving the design of new products in-house -- instead of
        *trace*-1 contracting out the work -- [the company]-1 also has been able
        to come up with designs that can be manufactured more efficiently,
        he said.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: [ contracting] [ out]
        Arg1: the work

Example: With Benefactive

        [Costa Rican bananas]-2 had been contracted *-2 out early
        to large corporations.

        Rel: [contracted][out]
        Arg1: *-2
        Argm-tmp: early
        Arg2: to large corporations