Predicate: expect

expect: Frames file for 'expect' based on first so-and-so of sentences from large corpus

Roleset id: expect.01 , look forward to, anticipate, vncls: 62 29.5, framnet: Expectation , Opinion

expect.01: Updated by Julia. Member of Vncls wish-62 and conjecture-29.5-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: expecter (vnrole: 62-experiencer, 29.5-agent)
        Arg1: thing expected (vnrole: 62-theme, 29.5-theme)

Example: nominal arg1

        Portfolio managers expect further declines in interest rates.

        Arg0: Portfolio managers
        Rel: expect
        Arg1: further declines in interest rates

Example: sentential arg1

        The company expects *trace* to obtain regulatory approval.

        Arg0: The company
        Rel: expects
        Arg1: *trace* to obtain regulatory approval

Example: passivised

        [Regulatory approval]-1 is expected *trace*-1 soon by everyone

        Rel: expected
        Arg1: *trace*-1
        Argm-tmp: soon
        Arg0: by everyone

Example: passivised with extraction

        What is expected is the Senate's acting; thus, the syntactic movement is undone in the argument structure.
        [The Senate]-1 isn't expected *trace*-1 to act until next week.

        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: expected
        Arg1: *trace* to act until next week

Example: discourse-connective

        traces don't connect to anything. This reading assumes the first is the agent.
        As *trace* expected *trace*, John said something stupid again.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: expected
        Arg1: *trace*