Predicate: postpone

postpone: Frames file for 'postpone' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, Framenet entry Relative time. Other framed members include delay. Comparison with delay.

Roleset id: postpone.01 , delay, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg 2: "delay itself" is duration of delay NOT cause of delay, this would be argm-CAU
        Arg0: agent, causer of delay
        Arg1: event delayed
        Arg2: delay itself, EXT, time period, how long arg 1 was delayed for
        Arg3: original time
        Arg4: new time

Example: just transitive

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

        A state judge postponed a decision on a move by holders of
        Telerate Inc. to block the tender offer of Dow Jones & Co. for
        the 33% of Telerate it doesn't already own.

        Arg0: A state judge
        Rel: postponed
        Arg1: a decision on a move by holders of Telerate Inc. to block the tender offer of Dow Jones & Co. for the 33% of Telerate it doesn't already own

Example: with MNR

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

        Separately, the Ontario Supreme Court said it will postpone
        indefinitely a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of
        Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid.

        Arg0: it
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: postpone
        Arg2: indefinitely
        Arg1: a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid

Example: start and end points

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        [TW's stockholder meeting]-1 was postponed *trace*-1 from tomorrow to
        Nov. 21.

        Rel: postponed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg3: from tomorrow
        Arg4: to Nov. 21