Predicate: understand

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

Roleset id: understand.01 , understand, vncls: 77 87.2-1, framnet: Grasp Awareness Categorization

understand.01: Member of Vncls approve-77, comprehend-87.2-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: understander (vnrole: 77-agent, 87.2-1-agent)
        Arg1: thing understood (vnrole: 77-proposition, 87.2-1-predicate)
        Arg2: attribute of arg1 (vnrole: 87.2-1-proposition)

Example: grok

        The syntax will determine the difference between the first and second examples; by all rights "John to be an idiot" should be a single constituent which could be called Arg1 all by itself, but there might be cases with extraction ("John was understood to be an idiot") or other cases where the two args are separate. Try to keep things as a single arg, if possible.
        Program trading is here to stay, and computers are here to stay,
        and [we]-1 just need *trace*-1 to understand it.''

        Arg0: *trace*: we
        Rel: understand
        Arg1: it

Example: split thing understood

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

        But [Mr. Corr]-1 , a stunt pilot in his spare time , was understood [*-1] to be frustrated [*-2] by what he regarded [*T*-3] as limited freedom under Mr. Lorenzo .

        Arg1: [[*-1] to be frustrated [*-2] by what he regarded [*T*-3] as limited freedom under Mr. Lorenzo]
        Rel: understood

Example: it support

        Latter examples is particularly interesting, as it's effectively passivized, but the utterance is apparently too big to put in subject position. Cool.
        It's understood that MGM/UA recently contacted Rupert Murdoch's
        News Corp., which made two failed bids for the movie studio, to
        see if the company was still interested.

        Rel: understood
        Arg1: that MGM/UA recently contacted Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., which made two failed bids for the movie studio, to see if the company was still interested

Example: with attribute and apparently missing arg0

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

        The three most important things [0] [*]-1 to understand [*T*-1] about Mr. Allen is that he is a black conservative intellectual -- a triple threat to the liberal establishment .

        Rel: understand
        Arg1: [*T*-1] (= [0])
        Argm-slc: [0] -> The three most important things
        Arg2: about Mr. Allen