Predicate: sponsor

sponsor: Frames file for 'sponsor' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 29.8.

Roleset id: sponsor.01 , support openly, vncls: 29.8, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: sponsor (vnrole: 29.8-Agent)
        Arg1: thing sponsored (vnrole: 29.8-Theme)

Example: active

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

        So says the Commonwealth Fund, a New York philanthropist that's
        sponsoring a $1 million project to develop joint masters in
        business and nursing programs at 10 universities ... .

        Arg0: *trace*
        ArgM-RCL: that -> a New York philanthropist
        Rel: sponsoring
        Arg1: a $1 million project to develop joint masters in business and nursing programs at 10 universities

Example: passive

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

        In the 1920s, a young schoolteacher, John T. Scopes, volunteered
        to be a guinea pig in [a test case]-1 sponsored *trace*-1 by the
        American Civil Liberties Union to challenge a ban on the teaching
        of evolution imposed by the Tennessee Legislature.

        Rel: sponsored
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: by the American Civil Liberties Union