Predicate: save

Roleset id: save.01 , financial sense, vncls: 13.5.1-1 54.5, framnet:

save.01: Frames file for 'save' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry get-13.5.1, bill-54.5. No comparison.

Roles:

        Arg0: entity saving money, cause of savings, not necessarily recipient! (vnrole: 13.5.1-1-agent, 54.5-agent)
        Arg1: money (vnrole: 13.5.1-1-theme, 54.5-asset)
        Arg2: beneficiary (vnrole: 13.5.1-1-beneficiary, 54.5-recipient)
        Arg3: cause, reason, instrument/manner of savings (vnrole: 54.5-cause)

Example: transitive

        Unisys said that should help it save $500 million a year in costs,
        again at the high end of the previously reported range of $400
        million to $500 million.

        Arg0: it
        Rel: save
        Arg1: $500 million a year in costs, again at the high end of the previously reported range of $400 million to $500 million

Example: with reason

        In following several other oil and gas partnerships that have made
        the conversion to a corporation in the last year, NRM also noted
        that tax advantages for partnerships have diminished under new tax
        laws and said it would save $2 million a year in administrative
        costs from the change.

        Arg0: it
        Argm-mod: would
        Rel: save
        Arg1: $2 million a year in administrative costs
        Arg3: the change

Example: cause as subject

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

        Not drinking coffee saves John three trips to the bathroom every morning.

        Arg3: Not drinking coffee
        Rel: saves
        Arg2: John
        Arg1: three trips to the bathroom every morning

Example: with causal agent

        [The combined effect of these changes]-1 is expected *trace*-1 to save
        the company about $4 million in interest expenses next year, or
        six cents a share.

        Arg3: *trace*
        Rel: save
        Arg2: the company
        Arg1: about $ 4 million in interest expenses
        Argm-tmp: next year
        Argm: or six cents a share

Roleset id: save.02 , desperate peril sense, vncls: , framnet:

save.02: Following Treebank, I read this as "save it FROM spending cash...".

Roles:

        Arg0: hero
        Arg1: victim
        Arg2: peril

Example: just transitive

        Some of the money will go to the Chico Mendes Foundation, but it
        isn't earmarked for groups-1 trying *trace*-1 to save the rain
        forest.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: save
        Arg1: the rain forest

Example: with peril

        The purpose of the note is to provide added capital for the
        spun-off company in a form that *trace* will save it spending cash
        on immediate interest payments, Mr. Roulac said.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Argm-rcl: that -> a form
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: save
        Arg1: it
        Arg2: spending cash on immediate interest payments

Roleset id: save.03 , collect, accrue, vncls: 13.5.1-1, framnet:

save.03: This sense and save.02 (desperate peril) lead to the wonderful pun: "Save the whales--collect a complete set!" Hard to distinguish from save.01, also shares a VN class: get-13.5.1-1. I would SAVE this roleset for non-financial savings.

Roles:

        Arg0: collector (vnrole: 13.5.1-1-agent)
        Arg1: thing saved, collected (vnrole: 13.5.1-1-theme)
        Arg2: purpose

Example: intransitive

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

        And they can further reduce the monthly amount if they start
        saving earlier -- when mother and child come home from the
        hospital.

        Arg0: they
        Rel: saving
        Argm-tmp: earlier -- when mother and child come home from the hospital

Example: all args, many anaphora

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

        When the motorist returned to his car he could turn the card off
        and, if it showed time remaining, save it for later.

        Arg0: he
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: save
        Arg1: it
        Arg2: for later


Predicate: save_up

Roleset id: save.04 , collect, accrue (phrasal variant), vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: collector
        Arg1: thing saved, collected
        Arg2: purpose

Example: transitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: infinitive

        ``We're not asking them-1 [*-1] to save up 50 proof-of-purchases.

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: [save] [up]
        Arg1: 50 proof-of-purchases

Example: agent and purpose

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        John is saving up for a new bicycle.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: [saving] [up]
        Arg2: for a new bicycle