Predicate: distribute

distribute: Frames file for 'distribute' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison to 'pass out'.

Roleset id: distribute.01 , distribute, vncls: 13.2, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: distributor (vnrole: 13.2-Agent)
        Arg1: thing distributed (vnrole: 13.2-Theme)
        Arg2: distributed to (vnrole: 13.2-Recipient)

Example: active, no benefactive

        RMS distributes electronic devices and produces power supplies and
        plastic literature displays.

        Arg0: RMS
        Rel: distributes
        Arg1: electronic devices

Example: passive, with benefactive

        The candy businesses had sales of about $154 million last year,
        which was roughly 12% of total revenue for RJR's Planters
        LifeSavers unit, according to [a memorandum]-1 distributed *trace*-1 by
        RJR's owner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., to bankers last
        December.

        Rel: distributed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: by RJR's owner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
        Arg2: to bankers
        ArgM-TMP: last December