Predicate: step

Roleset id: step.01 , move incrementally, vncls: 51.3.2, framnet: Self_motion

step.01: Baswd on financial subcorpus. Comparison with 'move'. Member of VNcls run-51.3.2.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of movement (vnrole: 51.3.2-agent)
        Arg1: thing moving (vnrole: 51.3.2-theme)
        Arg2: destination, end state
        Arg3: source, start place or state

Example: destination and direction

        Maybe she could step across the plaza to the Met -- where she has
        still to make her debut -- and help out her Czech compatriot by
        singing the slow parts of ``Traviata.''

        Argm-adv: Maybe
        Arg1: she
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: step
        Argm-dir: across the plaza
        Arg2: to the Met -- where she has still to make her debut --

Example: direction only

        A Ford takeover of Jaguar would ``have such implications for the
        balance of power in the 1990s that [General Motors]-1 can't afford
        *trace*-1 to step aside.

        Arg1: *trace*-1
        Rel: step
        Argm-dir: aside

Example: with arg2

        Institutions, meanwhile, stepped back to the sidelines as the
        direction of U.S. interest rates remained unclear.

        Arg1: Institutions
        Argm-tmp: meanwhile
        Rel: stepped
        Arg2: back to the sidelines
        Argm-tmp: as the direction of U.S. interest rates remained unclear


Predicate: step_in

Roleset id: step.02 , enter, vncls: , framnet: -

step.02: No Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg1: entity entering

Example: entry of the gladiators

        International Paper or Weyerhaeuser could step in . ''

        Arg1: International Paper or Weyerhaeuser
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: [ step] [ in]


Predicate: step_up

Roleset id: step.03 , increase incrementally, vncls: , framnet: Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale

step.03: No Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg0: cause of increase
        Arg1: thing increasing

Example: automatically generated

        The offer, which follows a $55-a-share bid that was rejected in
        September, steps up pressure on the chemicals concern.

        Arg0: The offer , which follows a $ 55-a-share bid that was rejected in September ,
        Rel: [ steps] [ up]
        Arg1: pressure on the chemicals concern


Predicate: step_down

Roleset id: step.04 , resign, vncls: , framnet: Quitting

step.04: No Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg0: resigner
        Arg1: position resigned

Example: resign

        He succeeds James A. Taylor, who-1 *trace*-1 stepped down as chairman,
        president and chief executive in March for health reasons.

        Arg0: *trace*-1 (= who)
        Argm-slc: who -> James A. Taylor
        Rel: [ stepped] [ down]
        Arg1: as chairman , president and chief executive
        Argm-tmp: in March
        Argm-cau: for health reasons


Predicate: step_aside

Roleset id: step.05 , resign, vncls: , framnet: -

step.05: No Vncls. Added by Julia based on WSJ.

Roles:

        Arg0: resigner
        Arg1: job/position

Example: both args

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

        Mr. Wall 's deputies complained that they had n't been given an opportunity to respond to the criticism brought out during the Banking Committee 's hearings , which Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez -LRB- D. , Texas -RRB- has used as a forum to flay Mr. Wall 's handling of the affair and to demand that he step aside from his job .

        Arg0: he
        Rel: [step] [aside]
        Arg1: from his job