Predicate: wait
Roleset id: wait.01 , wait, vncls: 47.1-1, framnet: Waiting Holding_off_on Expectation
wait.01: Frames file for 'wait' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'remain' and 'exist' (so says verbnet). Member of Vncls exist-47.1-1.
Roles:
Arg1: wait-er (not waiter, that's the other sense) (vnrole: 47.1-1-theme)
Arg2: thing waited for
Argm: period of time waited through
Example: time period
The Treasury may wait until Monday or Tuesday.
Arg1: The Treasury
Argm-mod: may
Rel: wait
Argm-tmp: until Monday or Tuesday
Example: waiting for Godot (you saw that coming, didn't you?)
That permits them to wait for prices to rise.
Arg1: them
Rel: wait
Arg2: for prices to rise
Roleset id: wait.02 , wait tables, vncls: , framnet: Being_employed
Roles:
Arg0: waiter
Arg1: table
Example: starving artist
John is waiting tables in LA until he gets his big break.
Arg0: John
Rel: waiting
Arg1: tables
Argm-loc: in LA
Argm-tmp: until he gets his big break
Predicate: wait_out
Roleset id: wait.03 , wait out: endure, outlast, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: thing lasting longer
Arg1: thing lasting shorter
Example: us. 'wait it out'
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive
As the strike enters its 15th day today, some members are getting
nervous, the spokesman conceded, but [the majority of the 55,000
Machinists]-1 are prepared [*-1] to ``wait it out as long as it
takes.''
Arg0: [*-1]
Rel: wait out
Arg1: it
Argm-tmp: as long as it takes