Predicate: tender

tender: Frames file for 'tender' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: tender.01 , light verb with 'offer' or 'bid', vncls: , framnet: -

tender.01: WSJ usage does not accord at all with my intuition. It could be that this will have to be revamped to bring it more in line with 'offer'. Comparison to 'offer'. No Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg0: entity making offer/bid
        Arg1: offer/bid, or shares if being tendered to an offer
        Arg2: offered to

Example: expected transitive active

        It shed about 7 pence, however, after dealers said the market was
        disappointed that [Ford]-1 didn't move *trace*-1 to tender a bid for
        control of the company.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: tender
        Arg1: a bid for control of the company

Example: expected passive

        The offer, which was due to expire yesterday, is conditional on
        [50.1% of Dunkin's common shares]-1, on a fully diluted basis, being
        tendered *trace*-1 and on the withdrawal of the company's poison
        pill rights plan.

        Rel: tendered
        Arg1: *trace*-1

Example: active, unexpected arg2

        LIN Broadcasting surged 4 5/8 to 112 5/8; LIN and BellSouth
        sweetened their merger agreement in an attempt to keep
        [shareholders]-1 from *trace*-1 tendering their shares to McCaw Cellular
        Communications.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: tendering
        Arg1: their shares
        Arg2: to McCaw Cellular Communications

Example: passive, unexpected arg2

        At the close of business Thursday, Ciba-Geigy and Chiron said
        [11,580 common shares]-1 had been tendered *trace*-1 to their offer.

        Rel: tendered
        Arg1: *trace*-1
        Arg2: to their offer