Predicate: pile

pile: Frames file for 'pile' based on sentences in wsj and automatic expansion via verbnet.

Roleset id: pile.01 , make a pile, vncls: 9.7-1-1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: piler (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-agent)
        Arg1: substance being piled (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-theme)
        Arg2: explicit mention of pile, or destination/location (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-destination)

Example: all args

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        In 1987, KKR for the second time piled debt onto Storer's TV
        stations, selling them for $1.3 billion to a new entity that was
        45%-owned by KKR and 55%-owned by Gillett Corp., which now
        operates the SCI TV stations.

        Argm-tmp: In 1987
        Arg0: KKR
        Argm-tmp: for the second time
        Rel: piled
        Arg1: debt
        Arg2: onto Storer's TV stations
        Argm-adv: selling them for $1.3 billion to a new entity that was 45%-owned by KKR and 55%-owned by Gillett Corp, which now operates the SCI TV stations

Example: ergative

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

        Now, though, enormous costs for earthquake relief will pile on top
        of outstanding costs for hurricane relief.

        Argm-tmp: Now
        Argm-dis: though
        Arg1: enormous costs for earthquake relief
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: pile
        Arg2: on top of outstanding costs for hurricane relief

Roleset id: pile.03 , move in an untidy fashion, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg1: entity in motion
        Arg2: destination

Example: Keystone Kops

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

        They pile out of their truck and furiously begin twisting together
        steel pipes linking a giant storage tank to the Sharpshooter, a
        freshly drilled oil well two miles deep.

        Arg1: They
        Rel: pile
        Arg2: out of their truck


Predicate: pile_up

Roleset id: pile.02 , make a pile, vncls: , framnet:

pile.02: I personally would have left the "up" particle out, but whatever.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent of piling
        Arg1: substance being piled

Example: usually ergative?

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

        In the additional time they provide even more order imbalances
        might pile up, as would-be sellers finally get their broker on the
        phone.

        Argm-tmp: In the additional time they provide
        Arg1: even more order imbalances
        Argm-mod: might
        Rel: [ pile] [ up]
        Argm-tmp: as would-be sellers finally get their broker on the phone

Example: sometimes agentive

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

        A celebrity guest, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt,
        also won a bet that someone could pile up $150 worth of quarters
        on a slanted coin.

        Arg0: someone
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: [ pile] [ up]
        Arg1: $150 worth of quarters
        Arg2: on a slanted coin


Predicate: pile_on

pile_on: Note that 'pile on' can take several different interpretations, depending on how the treebankers have assigned the syntax.

Roleset id: pile.04 , add to a pile, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: agent of piling
        Arg1: substance being piled
        Arg2: explicit mention of pile

Example: agentive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        SCI TV, which expects to release a plan to restructure $1.3
        billion of debt in the next day or so, isn't just another LBO that
        *trace*-1 went bad after *trace*-1 piling on debt -- though it did do
        that.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Argm-rcl: that -> just another LBO
        Rel: [ piling] [ on]
        Arg1: debt