Predicate: press
press: Frames file for 'press' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Roleset id: press.01 , apply pressure, possibly to do something, vncls: 59 12-1-1, framnet:
press.01: This class corresponds to both push-12-1-1 and force-59.
Roles:
Arg0: presser (vnrole: 59-agent, 12-1-1-agent)
Arg1: pressed (on) (vnrole: 59-patient, 12-1-1-theme)
Arg2: goal, pressed-for, arg1 is pressed to do what? (vnrole: 59-proposition)
Example: all args present
For more than a decade, banks have been pressing Congress and
banking regulators for expanded powers to act like securities
firms in playing Wall Street's lucrative takeover game, from giving
mergers advice all the way to selling and trading high-yield junk
bonds.
Argm-tmp: For more than a decade
Arg0: banks
Rel: pressing
Arg1: Congress and banking regulators
Arg2: for expanded powers to act like securities firms in playing Wall Street's lucrative takeover game, from giving mergers advice all the way to selling and trading high-yield junk bonds
Example: unstated goal
John presses flowers in his textbooks.
Arg0: John
Rel: presses
Arg1: flowers
Argm-loc: in his textbooks
Example: unstated thing pressed
But Ford, Jaguar's biggest shareholder since lifting its stake to
10.4% this week, is pressing harder for talks with Sir John.
Argm-dis: But
Arg0: Ford, Jaguar's biggest shareholder since lifting its stake to 10.4% this week
Rel: pressing
Argm-mnr: harder
Arg2: for talks with Sir John
Example: idiomatic: hard pressed
person: ns, tense: future, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
The House has already voted for a deep cut in funding, and in the
end the program's backers will be hard pressed [*] to head off
some reduction in spending next year.
Argm-tmp: in the end
Arg1: the program's backers
Argm-mod: will
Argm-adv: hard
Rel: pressed
Arg2: [*] to head off some reduction in spending next year
Roleset id: press.02 , move, vncls: 12-1-1, framnet:
press.02: Verbnet class push-12-1-1.
Roles:
Arg0: mover (vnrole: 12-1-1-agent)
Arg1: moved (vnrole: 12-1-1-theme)
Argm: ahead, usually
Example: all args present
But [the pilots union, which has been pushing for a takeover since
1987,]-1 appears *trace*-1 to be pressing ahead with the revised bid to
avoid further loss of momentum even though it hasn't found a
partner to replace British Air.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: pressing
Argm-dir: ahead
Arg1: with the revised bid
Argm-pnc: to avoid further loss of momentum
Argm-adv: even though it hasn't found a partner to replace British Air
Roleset id: press.03 , make and produce, vncls: , framnet:
press.03: Frame created by Jena.
Roles:
Arg0: producer
Arg1: record, music, disk
Example: CD
Ritek-1 started *-1 to press CDs.
Arg0: *-1
Rel: press
Arg1: CDs
Example: records
This young woman carefully pressing black phonograph records was
none other than boss Yeh's wife.
Arg0: This young woman
Rel: pressing
Argm-mnr: carefully
Arg1: black phonograph records