Predicate: verge

verge: Frames file for 'verge' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus. Comparison with 'approach'.

Roleset id: verge.01 , to approach, come close to, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg1: entity verging
        Arg2: entity coming close to

Example: both arguments

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        But in the week following the 1987 stock crash , the exchange verged on collapse , and the stock and futures markets in Hong Kong were closed [*-1] for four days .

        ArgM-DIS: But
        ArgM-TMP: in the week following the 1987 stock crash
        Arg1: the exchange
        Rel: verged
        Arg2: on collapse