Predicate: register

register: Frames file for 'register' based on sentences in financial subcorpus and automatic expansion via verbnet.

Roleset id: register.01 , measure, vncls: 54.1-1, framnet:

register.01: I rather doubt agents and yardsticks will appear in this sense. VN classe register-54.1-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: measurer (vnrole: 54.1-1-agent)
        Arg1: thing measured (vnrole: 54.1-1-theme)
        Arg2: yardstick, standard of measurement
        Arg3: measurement (vnrole: 54.1-1-value)

Example: with measurement

        Could also be ergative instead of passive: "John's reading ability registered at the fifth-grade level."
        [John's reading ability]-1 was registered *trace*-1 at the fifth-grade level.

        Rel: registered
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg3: at the fifth-grade level.

Roleset id: register.02 , official record, vncls: 101, framnet:

register.02: VN class patent-101

Roles:

        Arg0: entity registering (vnrole: 101-agent)
        Arg1: thing registered (vnrole: 101-theme)
        Arg2: registered with or for
        Arg3: secondary predication

Example: all args, odd order

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

        HEALTHDYNE Inc., Atlanta, said its subsidiary, Home Nutritional
        Services Inc., registered with the Securities and Exchange
        Commission an initial public offering of four million shares of
        common.

        Arg0: its subsidiary, Home Nutritional Services Inc. ,
        Rel: registered
        Arg2: with the Securities and Exchange Commission
        Arg1: an initial public offering of four million shares of common

Example: unmentioned arg2

        Could also be read as the 'measure' sense.
        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Excluding the gain, the company registered a modest 4.6% increase
        for the quarter ended Sept. 29 to $113 million, or 87 cents a
        share, from the year-earlier $107.9 million, or 84 cents a share.

        Argm-adv: Excluding the gain
        Arg0: the company
        Rel: registered
        Arg1: a modest 4.6% increase for the quarter ended Sept. 29 to $113 million, or 87 cents a share, from the year-earlier $107.9 million, or 84 cents a share

Example: university phenomenon

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

        John registered for classes.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: registered
        Arg2: for classes

Example: another marginal example

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

        John registered with the Selective Service Administration.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: registered
        Arg2: with the Selective Service Administration

Example:

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

        [The number of people]-1 registered [*]-1 as jobless at the end of
        October declined by 900 from September to 78,600.

        Rel: registered
        Arg1: [*]
        Arg3: as jobless
        Argm-tmp: at the end of October