Predicate: keep
Roleset id: keep.01 , maintain possession, vncls: 15.2 55.6, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: Keeper (vnrole: 15.2-agent, 55.6-agent)
Arg1: thing kept (vnrole: 15.2-theme, 55.6-theme)
Example: plain old transitive
The Herald kept its old-time Hearst readership.
Arg0: The Herald
Rel: kept
Arg1: its old-time Hearst readership
Roleset id: keep.02 , aspectual, vncls: 55.6, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: causer of continued action (vnrole: 55.6-agent)
Arg1: continued entity (vnrole: 55.6-theme)
Arg2: continued state or action (vnrole: 55.1-predicate)
Example: subject control
John kept *trace* annotating.
Arg0: John
Rel: kept
Arg2: *trace* annotating
Example: object control with sentential attribute
Ringers keep the bells sounding in the many belfries of East Anglia.
Arg0: Ringers
Rel: keep
Arg1: the bells
Arg2: sounding in the many belfries of East Anglia
Example: object control with Adj attribute
The captain kept the crew loyal.
Arg0: The captain
Rel: kept
Arg1: the crew
Arg2: loyal
Roleset id: keep.04 , maintain some prepositional relationship, vncls: 55.6, framnet:
keep.04: This roleset shows some relationship between nouns or gerunds
described by the preposition introducing the second noun, and the
'keep' is causing or maintaining that relationship.
Roles:
Arg0: causer of separation (vnrole: 55.6-agent)
Arg1: one noun (vnrole: 55.6-theme)
Arg2: other noun
Example: be careful with 'from'!
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Growers can't always keep the worm from the apple.
Arg0: Growers
Argm-mod: ca
Argm-neg: n't
Argm-tmp: always
Rel: keep
Arg1: the worm
Arg2: from the apple
Example: keep from: quasi-aspectual
Japanese demand has kept the U.S. currency from *trace* plunging.
Arg0: Japanese demand
Rel: kept
Arg1: the U.S. currency
Arg2: from *trace* plunging
Example: keep out
Britain kept light tanks out of the talks.
Arg0: Britain
Rel: kept
Arg1: light tanks
Arg2: out of the talks
Example: keep off
Keep your Foster Savings Institution off the federal budget deficit.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: Keep
Arg1: your Foster Savings Institution
Arg2: off the federal budget deficit
Example: with attributive
The Fed kept inflation-fighting as its top priority.
Arg0: The Fed
Rel: kept
Arg1: inflation-fighting
Arg2: as its top priority
Roleset id: keep.06 , prepositional, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
This is a complex preposition and takes NO ARGUMENT STRUCTURE!
Example: keep with
... in *trace=nothing* keeping with the reputation of the company.
Roleset id: keep.LV , light verb, vncls: , framnet:
keep.LV: This used to be keep.03
Roles:
Arg:
Predicate: keep_up
Roleset id: keep.05 , keep up: maintain one's position, vncls: , framnet:
keep.05: There is a VN class for this VPC, but it's not relevant.
Roles:
Arg0: maintainer of position
Arg1: relative to what
Example: keeping up with the Joneses
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John can't keep up with Mary's rapid mood swings.
Arg0: John
Argm-mod: ca
Argm-neg: n't
Rel: [keep] [up]
Arg1: with Mary's rapid mood swings
Roleset id: keep.10 , sustain, vncls: 55.6, framnet: Activity_ongoing
keep.10: Member of Vncls 55.6. Comparison to keep.01. Added by Julia based on examples in Brown.
Roles:
this sense is transitive, vs. the other 'keep_up', which is intransitive. In this sense, the state of arg1 is what is being maintained, and in the other sense, arg0's state is being maintained.
Arg0: agent (vnrole: 55.6-agent)
Arg1: thing maintained/sustained (vnrole: 55.6-theme)
Arg2: instrument (vnrole: 55.6-instrument)
Example: maintaining physical entity's good condition
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: gerund
He did not like to think of all the time and rags and polishes he-1 had spent on *-1 keeping the house up .
Arg0: *-1: he
Rel: [keeping] [up]
Arg1: the house
Predicate: keep_on
Roleset id: keep.08 , keep on: aspectual, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: causer of continuation, volitional
Arg1: continued entity
Arg2: continued event or state
Example: aspectual
person: ns, tense: future, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
State monopolies will keep on [*-1] stifling trade, ``free''
prices or not, until something else replaces them.
Arg1: State monopolies
Arg2: [*-1] stifling trade
Argm-mod: will
Rel: keep on
Argm-adv: ``free'' prices or not
Argm-tmp: until something else replaces them