Predicate: halt

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

Roleset id: halt.01 , stop, vncls: 45.4 55.4, framnet: Halt Activity_stop

halt.01: Verbnet class other_cos-45.4, stop-55.4. Comparison with 'stop'.VN, FN updated by Julia.

Roles:

        Higher numbered args might or might not occur; refer to 'stop' for usage of them.
        Arg0: causer of stopping (vnrole: 55.4-agent, 45.4-agent)
        Arg1: Theme (action or object being stopped) (vnrole: 55.4-theme, 45.4-patient)
        Arg2: Instrument, if separate from arg0 (vnrole: 45.4-instrument, 55.4-instrument)

Example: transitive active

        While program trades swiftly kicked in, a ``circuit breaker'' that-1
        *trace*-1 halted trading in stock futures in Chicago made some
        program trading impossible.

        Arg0: *trace*-1 (= that)
        Argm-slc: that -> a ``circuit breaker''
        Rel: halted
        Arg1: trading in stock futures in Chicago

Example: passivized

        Cineplex traded on the New York Stock Exchange at $11.25 a share,
        up $1.125, before trading-1 was halted *trace*-1.

        Rel: halted
        Arg1: *trace*

Roleset id: halt.02 , halt from, vncls: , framnet: -

halt.02: Added by Julia based on WSJ. Comparison to stop.03-- note the syntactic difference between stop.01 and stop.03. No. Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg0: primary agent, preventer
        Arg1: secondary agent, entity coming to to a halt
        Arg2: action secondary agent is kept from

Example: All args

        person: third,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: infinitive

        Gold and silver broker Preston Semel asked [a federal court]-1 *PRO*-1 to halt the Commodity Exchange from imposing a record $ 550,000 fine on his firm .

        Arg0: *PRO*-1
        Rel: halt
        Arg1: the Commodity Exchange
        Arg2: from imposing a record $ 550,000 fine on his firm