Frameset - market-v

Predicate: market

market: Frames file for 'market' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison with verbs of commerce like 'sell'.

Roleset id: market.01 , try to sell, offer for sale, vncls: , framnet:

market.01: Note that the Arg3 is not the same as it is in the other commerce verbs, being attributive not price. Be wary, also, of adjectival usages: "marketing executives" etc.

Roles:

        Arg0: Seller
        Arg1: Thing Sold
        Arg2: Buyer
        Arg3: attribute
        Arg4: Benefactive

Example: basic transitive

        The Food and Drug Administration allowed [the company]-1 to begin
        *trace*-1 marketing a new lens for use in cataract patients.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: marketing
        Arg1: a new lens for use in cataract patients

Example: with prospective buyer

        [The facility]-1 will be marketed *trace*-1 toward families, and room
        rates will be between $35 and $55 a night, MGM Grand said.

        ArgM-MOD: will
        Rel: marketed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: toward families

Example: with attribute

        Last week, Ford encountered a setback in its effort to broaden its
        U.S. luxury offerings when it-1 was forced *trace*-1 to abandon a
        four-year-old effort *trace*-1 to market its German-built Scorpio
        sedan in the U.S. as a luxury import under the Merkur brand name.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: market
        Arg1: its German-built Scorpio sedan
        ArgM-LOC: in the U.S.
        Arg3: as a luxury import under the Merkur brand name

Example: with benefactive

        The company develops and markets products for the food service
        industry.

        Arg0: The company
        Rel: markets
        Arg1: products
        Arg4: for the food service industry