Predicate: contribute

contribute: Frames file for 'contribute' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'give'

Roleset id: contribute.01 , give, vncls: 13.2, framnet: Giving

contribute.01: Member of Vncls contribute-13.2-1-1-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: giver (vnrole: 13.2-agent)
        Arg1: thing given (vnrole: 13.2-theme)
        Arg2: entity given to (vnrole: 13.2-recipient)

Example: unstated thing given

        Pamela Sebastian in New York contributed to this article.

        Arg0: Pamela Sebastian in New York
        Rel: contributed
        Arg2: to this article

Example: unstated benefactor

        The "before taxes" is misparsed--it should be part of the NP with #34 --> --million.
        Last year they contributed #34 million, before taxes.

        Argm-tmp: Last year
        Arg0: they
        Rel: contributed
        Arg1: #34 million
        Argm-adv: before taxes

Example: topicalized

        Also contributing to the firmness in copper was *trace* a report by
        Chicago purchasing agents.

        Argm-dis: Also
        Rel: contributing
        Arg2: to the firmness in copper
        Arg0: a report by Chicago purchasing agents.