Predicate: want

Roleset id: want.01 , want, desire, vncls: 29.1 32.1 60, framnet: Possession Desiring

want.01: Frames file for 'want' based on survey of initial sentences from big corpus and comparison to 'plan' VN updated by Julia, 10/2010. Member of Vncls appoint-29.1, want-32.1-1-1, order-60.

Roles:

        Passivized and Passivized with extraction are predicted, but unlikely: For the dam to be built is wanted by Czechoslovakia. The dam is wanted to be built by Czechoslovakia. (note the the latter is ambiguous--is Cz the wanter or the builder?)
        Arg0: Wanter (vnrole: 29.1-agent, 32.1-experiencer, 60-agent)
        Arg1: thing wanted (vnrole: 29.1-theme, 29.1-predicate, 32.1-theme, 32.1-attribute, 60-theme, 60-proposition)
        Arg2: beneficiary
        Arg3: in-exchange-for
        Arg4: from

Example: transitive

        I want a flight from Ontario to Chicago

        Arg0: I
        Rel: want
        Arg1: a flight from Ontario to Chicago

Example: arg1 as infinitive

        I actually want *trace* to go from Ontario to Chicago

        Arg0: I
        Argm-adv: actually
        Rel: want
        Arg1: *trace* to go from Ontario to Chicago

Example: arg1 as infinitival sentence

        Czechoslovakia still wants the dam to be built.

        Arg0: Czechoslovakia
        Argm-tmp: still
        Rel: wants
        Arg1: the dam to be built

Example: passive with extraction

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        he-1 was wanted *trace*-1 as a suspect in a double murder

        Rel: wanted
        Arg1: *trace*-1 as a suspect in a double murder