Predicate: waste

Roleset id: waste.01 , destroy, use up needlessly, vncls: 66-1 44 68, framnet: Frugality

waste.01: Based on automatic expansion of 'destroy', Levin class (cl 44). Member of Vncls consume-66-1, destroy-44, pay-68.

Roles:

        Verbnet predicts an instrumental subject. They also bring the distinction between agent and instrument down to intentionality, which we've been trying to avoid. use arg2 when there is also an arg0.
        Arg0: destroyer (vnrole: 66-1-agent, 44-agent, 68-agent)
        Arg1: thing wasted (vnrole: 66-1-theme, 44-patient, 68-asset)
        Arg2: instrument of wasting/ destruction, wasted on/doing what (if separate from arg0) (vnrole: 44-instrument, 66-1-recipient, 68-theme)

Example: no instrument

        Program traders argue that a reinstatement of the rule would
        waste the ``pricing efficiency'' of the futures and stock
        markets.

        Arg0: a reinstatement of the rule
        Argm-mod: would
        Rel: waste
        Arg1: the ``pricing efficiency'' of the futures and stock markets

Example: with instrument

        Mary wasted John's fragile self-esteem with a single dirty look.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: wasted
        Arg1: John's fragile self-esteem
        Arg2: with a single dirty look