Predicate: participate
Roleset id: participate.01 , take part in, vncls: 73-2, framnet:
participate.01: Frames file for 'participate' based on sentences in financial
subcorpus. VerbNet class cooperate-73-2.
Roles:
Arg0: agent, entity participating (vnrole: 73-2-actor)
Arg1: participating in what? (vnrole: 73-2-theme)
Example: typically transitive
Upjohn officials said they couldn't estimate the size of the
charge until they determine which employees, and how many, *trace*
will participate in the retirement plan.
Arg0: *trace*
Argm-rcl: which employees , and how many ,
Argm-mod: will
Rel: participate
Arg1: in the retirement plan
Example: oddly intransitive
``There are too many people participating,'' says Al Ries, of
Trout & Ries, a Greenwich, Conn., marketing consulting firm.
Arg0: too many people
Rel: participating