Predicate: pay
pay: .
Roleset id: pay.01 , cf buy and sell, vncls: 68, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: payer or buyer (vnrole: 68-agent)
Arg1: money or attention (vnrole: 68-asset)
Arg2: person being paid, destination of attention
Arg3: commodity, paid for what (vnrole: 68-theme)
Example: price and commodity
Investors pay higher prices for country funds.
Arg0: Investors
Rel: pay
Arg1: higher prices
Arg3: for country funds
Example: seller and purpose
Theatres pay movie producers for showing their films.
Arg0: Theatres
Rel: pay
Arg2: movie producers
Arg3: for showing their films
Example: passive, price and receiver
[Mr. Cray]-1 was paid *trace*-1 $600,000 at Cray Research last year.
Arg2: *trace*
Rel: paid
Arg1: $600,000
Argm-loc: at Cray Research
Argm-tmp: last year
Example: variant: pay on
The Latin American nation has paid very little on its debt.
Arg0: The Latin American nation
Rel: paid
Arg1: very little
Arg2: on its debt
Example: agentive passive
...[the TV commercial]-1 paid for *trace*-1 by Giuliani's campaign...
Rel: paid
Arg3: for *trace*
Arg0: by Giuliani's campaign
Example: payer, payee, payment
The transaction would pay shareholders $55 a share.
Arg0: The transaction
Argm-mod: would
Rel: pay
Arg2: shareholders
Arg1: $55 a share
Example: pay attention
The media pays attention to Japanese investment
Arg0: The media
Rel: pays
Arg1: attention
Arg2: to Japanese investment
Roleset id: pay.04 , succeed, work out, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg1: thing succeeding or working out
Example: crime doesn't pay
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
``It's not easy to roll out something that comprehensive, and make
it pay,'' Mr. Jacob says.
Arg1: it
Rel: pay
Predicate: pay_off
Roleset id: pay.02 , pay off, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: payer
Arg1: debt
Arg2: owed to whom, person paid
Example: chump change
The government paid off $13.8 billion in T-bills.
Arg0: The government
Rel: [paid] [off]
Arg1: $13.8 billion in T-bills
Example: With arg 2
You could have the flip side and have some judge that-1 was paid *-1 off.
Rel: paid off
Arg2: *-1 --> that
Argm-rcl: that --> some judge
Roleset id: pay.05 , succeed, work out (phrasal), vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg1: thing succeeding, working out
Example: phrasal success
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
That can pay off down the road as customers, especially the
younger ones, change from borrowers to savers/investors.
Arg1: That
Argm-mod: can
Rel: pay off
Argm-tmp: down the road
Argm-tmp: as customers, especially the younger ones, change from borrowers to savers/investors
Predicate: pay_out
Roleset id: pay.03 , pay out, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: payer or buyer
Arg1: money or attention
Arg2: person being paid, destination of attention
Arg3: commodity, paid for what
Example: Arg0 rel Arg2 Arg3
Businesses are paying out a smaller percentage of their profits.
Arg0: Businesses
Rel: [paying] [out]
Arg1: a smaller percentage of their profits
Predicate: pay_down
Roleset id: pay.06 , reduce indebtedness, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: payer
Arg1: debt
Example: bastard child of pay (debt) and pay off (debt)
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
But Mr. Wathen's team still must pay down about $82 million of
long-term bank debt from the acquisition within the next four
years.
Argm-dis: But
Arg0: Mr. Wathen's team
Argm-dis: still
Argm-mod: must
Rel: [pay] [down]
Arg1: about $82 million of long-term bank debt from the acquisition
Argm-tmp: within the next four years
Predicate: pay_up
Roleset id: pay.07 , Same as pay.01 but sounds tougher, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: agent, payer
Arg1: money paid
Arg2: person being paid, given the money
Arg3: commodity, money paid for what?
Example: Payer only
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
I knew that if I did n't pay up they would burn the car .
Arg0: I
Argm-neg: n't
Rel: [pay] [up]
Example: More arguments
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
A consumer court in Bangalore has asked [German airline Lufthansa]-1 *PRO*-1 to pay up compensation for a rude airhostess.
Arg0: *PRO*-1
Rel: [pay] [up]
Arg1: compensation
Arg3: for a rude airhostess