Predicate: serve

serve: Frames file for 'serve' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Other VN classes fit-54.3 and Pay-68 are not really compatible with these rolesets.

Roleset id: serve.01 , act, work, vncls: 29.6-2 104, framnet: Assistance

serve.01: Comparison to 'work'. Member of Vncls masquerade-29.6-2, spend_time-104. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.

Roles:

        Arg0: worker (vnrole: 29.6-2-agent, 104-agent)
        Arg1: job, project, sentence (vnrole: 29.6-2-predicate, 104-theme)
        Arg2: employer

Example: just employer

        Each new trading roadblock is likely to be beaten by institutions-1
        seeking better ways *trace*-1 to serve their high-volume clients,
        here or overseas.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: serve
        Arg2: their high-volume clients
        Argm-loc: here or overseas

Example: just job

        Mr. Reupke was one of three executives on Reuters's eight-person
        executive committee who-1 *trace*-1 didn't also serve on the company's board
        of directors.

        Arg0: *trace*-1 (= who)
        Argm-slc: who -> three executives
        Argm-neg: n't
        Argm-adv: also
        Rel: serve
        Arg1: on the company's board of directors

Example: job and employer

        He has never met Lynn Williams, the president of the United
        Steelworkers union, and isn't active in the industry's main trade
        group, the American Iron and Steel Institute, which-1 Mr. Roderick
        served *trace*-1 as chairman.

        Rel: served
        Arg2: *trace*-1 (= which)
        Argm-slc: which -> the American Iron and Steel Institute
        Arg1: as chairman

Example: job as pro-controlled S

        In a statement, Arnold B. McKinnon, chairman and chief executive
        officer, noted that the new repurchase program ``should serve to
        enhance shareholder value.''

        Arg0: the new repurchase program
        Argm-mod: should
        Rel: serve
        Arg1: to enhance shareholder value

Example: serve time as a prisoner

        *"more than myself" really shoul be out of the span, as it should be modifying "no one wanted". But you never know with these trees.
        ...no one...wanted her to serve prison time more than myself.

        Arg0: her
        Rel: serve
        Arg1: prison time
        Argm-adv: more than myself

Roleset id: serve.02 , cater (to someone or something), vncls: 13.4.1-1, framnet: -

serve.02: Member of Vncls fulfilling-13.4.1-1. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.

Roles:

        Arg0: server (vnrole: 13.4.1-1-agent)
        Arg1: thing served (vnrole: 13.4.1-1-theme)
        Arg2: served to (vnrole: 13.4.1-1-recipient)

Example: breakfast in bed

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

        John served runny eggs and burnt toast to Mary.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: served
        Arg1: runny eggs and burnt toast
        Arg2: to Mary


Predicate: serve_up

Roleset id: serve.03 , provide, offer, vncls: 13.4.1, framnet: -

serve.03: No direct Vncls, but see fulfilling-13.4.1-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: server (vnrole: 13.4.1-agent)
        Arg1: served (vnrole: 13.4.1-theme)
        Arg2: served to (vnrole: 13.4.1-recipient)

Example: unmentioned beneficiary

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

        [*-2]-1 Served [*-1] up as a solo, however, [the music]-2 lacks the
        resonance provided by a context within another medium.

        Rel: [Served] [up]
        Arg1: [*-1]
        Argm-prd: as a solo