Predicate: edge

edge: Frames file for 'edge' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison to other verbs-of-incremental-movement.

Roleset id: edge.01 , move slightly, vncls: , framnet:

edge.01: Things seem to edge up more than they edge down, but this might just be due to the performance of the stock market at the time. Treebank tags "up X%" inconsistently; sometimes it's (correctly) two constituents, sometimes it's one ADVP. You'll need to split apart the ADVP to get to the argm-dir and arg2-ext. Bummer.

Roles:

        Arg1: Logical subject, patient, thing moving
        Arg2: EXT, amount moved
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point
        Argm: medium
        Arg5: direction--REQUIRED

Example: just thing moving

        Tokyo stocks edged up Wednesday in relatively active but unfocused
        trading.

        Arg1: Tokyo stocks
        Rel: edged
        Arg5: up
        Argm-tmp: Wednesday
        Argm-loc: in relatively active but unfocused trading

Example: with EXT

        Meanwhile, personal income edged up 0.3%.

        Argm-dis: Meanwhile
        Arg1: personal income
        Rel: edged
        Arg5: up
        Arg2: 0.3 %

Example: with start and end points

        That decline was reflected in revenue for the GM Hughes unit,
        which *trace* edged down to $2.58 billion from $2.63 billion.

        Arg1: *trace*
        Argm-rcl: which -> the GM Hughes unit
        Rel: edged
        Arg5: down
        Arg4: to $ 2.58 billion
        Arg3: from $ 2.63 billion

Example: all args

        Revenue edged up 3.4% to $904 million from $874 million in last
        year's third quarter.

        Arg1: Revenue
        Rel: edged
        Arg5: up
        Arg2: 3.4 %
        Arg4: to $ 904 million
        Arg3: from $ 874 million
        Argm-loc: in last year 's third quarter

Roleset id: edge.03 , Provide an edge or frame for an object, vncls: 47.8 9.8 47.7, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: decorator, edger (vnrole: 9.8-agent)
        Arg1: object edged (vnrole: 47.8-theme1, 9.8-destination, 47.7-location)
        Arg2: edged with what? (vnrole: 47.8-theme2, 9.8-theme, 47.7-theme)

Example: Passive

        As for the imperial clubs, according to The Book of Chuiwan, they-1 were
        edged *-1 with pure gold, inlaid with jade, and their shafts sumptuously decorated *.

        Rel: edged
        Arg1: *-1 --> they
        Arg2: with pure gold


Predicate: edge_out

Roleset id: edge.02 , beat, surpass, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: winner
        Arg1: loser
        Arg2: for what, prize

Example: all args

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

        John edged out Mary for the last piece of birthday cake.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: edged out
        Arg1: Mary
        Arg2: for the last piece of birthday cake