Predicate: vote

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

Roleset id: vote.01 , cast a ballot, vncls: 29.3, framnet: -

vote.01: VerbNet class dub-29.3.

Roles:

        Arga: proxy voter
        Arg0: voter (vnrole: 29.3-agent)
        Arg1: candidate or ballot issue (vnrole: 29.3-theme)
        Arg2: numerical count of vote, margin, down/up (vnrole: 29.3-predicate)

Example: vote on an issue

        NRM said it expects unitholders to vote on the restructuring at a
        meeting Dec. 15.

        Arg0: unitholders
        Rel: vote
        Arg1: on the restructuring
        Argm-loc: at a meeting Dec. 15

Example: vote for a candidate

        ``I guess we'll reluctantly go ahead and do it, vote for
        Dinkins,'' says Richard Wade, a politically active professor who
        supported Richard Ravitch, an also-ran in the Democratic primary.

        Arg0: we
        Argm-mod: 'll
        Rel: vote
        Arg1: for Dinkins

Example: arg1 as infinitive

        Nekoosa's poison pill allows shareholders to vote to rescind
        it...

        Arg0: shareholders
        Rel: vote
        Arg1: to rescind it

Example: voting shares

        The statement emphasized that holders representing 75% of the
        shares voting at a special shareholders' meeting must agree to
        lift the takeover restrictions.

        Arg0: the shares
        Rel: voting
        Argm-loc: at a special shareholders' meeting

Example: proxy voting

        *Scottish Amicable is not doing the voting, really, but rather the shares (cf the previous example). Thus Scottish Amicable takes the causal agent role. Also, "in favor of" is basically the same as "for".
        ``Thank God we have some deal on the table,'' said Stewart
        Gilchrist, a director at Scottish Amicable Investment Managers,
        which *trace*-1 intends *trace*-1 to vote its roughly 1% stake in favor of the
        restructuring.

        Argm-rcl: which -> Scottish Amicable Investment Managers
        Arga: *trace*
        Rel: vote
        Arg0: its roughly 1% stake
        Arg1: in favor of the restructuring

Example: with outcome of vote

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

        [The Peugeot metalworkers]-1 began filing out of the shop, which makes
        auto parts, at the plant in Mulhouse after [*]-1 voting 589 to 193
        [*-3] to abandon the occupation.

        Arg0: [*]
        Rel: voting
        Arg2: 589 to 193
        Arg1: [*-3] to abandon the occupation

Roleset id: vote.02 , give via legislative process, vncls: 13.3 13.5.1, framnet: -

vote.02: Verbnet entries future_having-13.3 get-13.5.1, other framed members include allocate, concede, grant; catch, entitle, extend, hire, lease, pick, reserve, seize.

Roles:

        Arg0: giver (vnrole: 13.3-agent, 13.5.1-agent)
        Arg1: gift (vnrole: 13.3-theme, 13.5.1-theme)
        Arg2: recipient (vnrole: 13.3-recipient, 13.5.1-beneficiary)

Example: graft

        United's directors voted themselves, and their spouses, lifetime
        access to the Friendly Skies -- free first-class travel, and
        $20,000 a year for life as well.

        Arg0: United 's directors
        Rel: voted
        Arg2: themselves, and their spouses,
        Arg1: lifetime access to the Friendly Skies -- free first-class travel, and $20,000 a year for life as well


Predicate: vote_down

Roleset id: vote.03 , vote against, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: voter
        Arg1: defeated issue

Example: die die die!

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        THE HOUSE votes down a proposal to put pension plans under the
        control of joint labor-management boards.

        Arg0: THE HOUSE
        Rel: [ votes] [ down]
        Arg1: a proposal to put pension plans under the control of joint labor-management boards