Predicate: top

top: Frames file for 'top' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. other framed members include contain, cover. Comparison with 'cover'.

Roleset id: top.01 , provide a top for, vncls: 9.9 47.8, framnet:

top.01: Verbnet classes contiguous_location-47.8 and butter-9.9; VN updated by Julia

Roles:

        Arg0: provider of top, agent (vnrole: 9.9-agent)
        Arg1: thing topped (vnrole: 47.8-theme2, 9.9-destination)
        Arg2: top (vnrole: 47.8-theme1, 9.9-theme)

Example: top the list: Arg2 subj

        Jaguar topped the most-active list, as its American depository
        receipts climbed 1 3/4 to 13 5/8 with more than 6.6 million ADRs
        traded.

        Arg2: Jaguar
        Rel: topped
        Arg1: the most-active list
        Argm-tmp: as its American depository receipts climbed 1 3/4 to 13 5/8 with more than 6.6 million ADRs traded

Example: agentive

        Obligatory obscure literature reference.
        John tops his list of favorite ice-cream flavors with green mouse.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: tops
        Arg1: his list of favorite ice-cream flavors
        Arg2: with green mouse

Roleset id: top.02 , surpass, vncls: 90, framnet:

top.02: Member of Vncls exceed-90. VN updated by Julia

Roles:

        Arg0: surpasser (vnrole: 90-theme1)
        Arg1: thing surpassed (vnrole: 90-theme2)

Example: relatively simple

        In savings activity, Mr. Sandler said consumer deposits have
        enjoyed a steady increase throughout 1989, and topped $11 billion
        at quarter's end for the first time in the company's history.

        Arg0: consumer deposits
        Rel: topped
        Arg1: $ 11 billion
        Argm-tmp: at quarter's end
        Argm-tmp: for the first time in the company's history

Example: bunch of adjuncts

        But advancing issues topped decliners by 784 to 700 on the Big
        Board despite the late sell programs, resulting from stock-index
        arbitrage.

        Argm-dis: But
        Arg0: advancing issues
        Rel: topped
        Arg1: decliners
        Argm-ext: by 784 to 700
        Argm-loc: on the Big Board
        Argm-adv: despite the late sell programs, resulting from stock-index arbitrage


Predicate: top_off

Roleset id: top.03 , top off: provide with a top, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: provider of top, agent
        Arg1: thing topped
        Arg2: top

Example: 'off' is redundant, really

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

        He has leather jackets from Turkey that-1 [*T*-1]-2 are lined with
        eel skin and topped [*-2] off with raccoon-skin collars.

        Rel: [topped] [off]
        Arg1: [*-2] (= *T*-1 = that)
        Argm-slc: that -> leather jackets from Turkey
        Arg2: with raccoon-skin collars