Predicate: urge

urge: Frames file for 'urge' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, Framenet entries Request and Suasion1. Comparison to verbs of compelled action (ie, force).

Roleset id: urge.01 , impelled action, vncls: 58.1, framnet: Attempt_suasion , Request

urge.01: Note that this is exactly equivalent to "Ford urged the gov't and Jag holders to remove the barriers..." This verb highlights the similarity between "force" and "request", which are currently framed oppositely. One or the other will have to be changed, eventually.

Roles:

        Arg0: urger (vnrole: 58.1-agent)
        Arg1: impelled agent (vnrole: 58.1-patient)
        Arg2: impelled action (vnrole: 58.1-proposition)

Example: typical usage

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: gerund

        Dealers said the multinational oil company was pressured by recent
        brokerage recommendations urging investors to switch into Shell
        Trading & Transport.

        Arg0: recent brokerage recommendations
        Rel: urging
        Arg1: investors
        Arg2: to switch into Shell Trading & Transport

Example: odd variant syntax

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

        Analysts continued to speculate late last week that [Ford]-1 may try *trace*-1
        to force the issue by *trace*-1 calling for a special shareholder's meeting
        and urging that the government and Jaguar holders remove the
        barriers to a full bidding contest before December 1990.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: urging
        Arg1: the government and Jaguar holders
        Arg2: remove the barriers to a full bidding contest before December 1990