Predicate: negotiate

negotiate: Frames file for 'negotiate' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet class negotiate-36.1, no indication of other members.

Roleset id: negotiate.01 , work out terms of agreement, vncls: 36.1, framnet: Discussion

negotiate.01: Treebank sometimes puts the co-negotiator in with the agreement, which is certainly plausible (ie, "negotiating a pact with GM" is it a pact with GM or a negotiation with GM? (Both, really.) Follow Treebank's parsing.

Roles:

        Arg0: negotiator (vnrole: 36.1-actor1)
        Arg1: explicit other party (vnrole: 36.1-actor2)
        Arg2: agreement (vnrole: 36.1-theme)

Example: NP/PP

        [Both companies]-1 are in the process of *trace*-1 negotiating contracts
        with LTV and others.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: negotiating
        Arg2: contracts
        Arg1: with LTV and others

Example: double PP

        It-1 recently signed a preliminary agreement *trace*-1 to negotiate
        exclusively with the Bank of Tokyo Ltd. for the sale of part of
        its leasing business to the Japanese bank.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: negotiate
        Arg1: with the Bank of Tokyo Ltd.
        Arg2: for the sale of part of its leasing business to the Japanese bank

Example: unstated agreement

        Although [Georgia Gulf]-1 hasn't been eager *trace*-1 to negotiate with Mr. Simmons and NL, a specialty chemicals concern...

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: negotiate
        Arg1: with Mr. Simmons and NL, a specialty chemicals concern,

Example: unstated co-negotiator

        Santa Fe has disclosed that it is negotiating to sell a 20%
        interest in its real estate unit to the California Public
        Employees Retirement System for roughly $400 million.

        Arg0: it
        Rel: negotiating
        Arg2: to sell a 20 % interest in its real estate unit to the California Public Employees Retirement System for roughly $400 million