Predicate: license

license: Frames file for 'license' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. I have the feeling there's also an 'allow' sense, which will take different framing, but we'll wait for an example from the corpus.

Roleset id: license.01 , give legal rights to property, vncls: 101, framnet:

license.01: Rather like rent and lease, but I'm not going to make a new roleset.

Roles:

        Arg0: granter of license (vnrole: 101-Agent)
        Arg1: licensed thing (vnrole: 101-Theme)
        Arg2: benefactive, licensed-to

Example: commercialism rules

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: gerund

        Turns out that next year, Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang turn
        40 -- and [Scripps Howard's United Media unit, the syndicator and
        licensing agent for Charles Schulz's comic strip,]-1 sees a bonanza
        in *trace*-1 licensing the cartoon characters to a bevy of
        advertisers for ads, tie-ins and promotions.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: licensing
        Arg1: the cartoon characters
        Arg2: to a bevy of advertisers
        ArgM-PNC: for ads, tie-ins and promotions

Example: reversed order

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: perfect,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Sandoz Ltd. has licensed certain manufacturing and marketing
        rights for Interleukin-3 from Genetics Institute and is conducting
        preclinical studies with it.

        Arg2: Sandoz Ltd.
        Rel: licensed
        Arg1: certain manufacturing and marketing rights for Interleukin-3
        Arg0: from Genetics Institute