Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[agent] GRANT NP2[patient]
Examples:
Users can be granted permission to create and maintain their own websites.
She refused to grant any interviews.
They granted her an entry visa.
He was granted asylum.
The company was granted aid by the state authorities.
They will grant funding if the research has sufficient prospects of success.
Many senior colleges grant degree credit only for intermediate-level courses.
The court granted divorce, divided the marital assets, and assigned debts.
The bill grants immunity to physicians and pharmacists.
Hickman was granted land in 1758.
Mappings:
VerbNet: future_having-13.3
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: grant.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7
Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[agent] GRANT NP2 NP1[agent] GRANT (that) SCOMP
Examples:
I grant that it must have been upsetting but even so I think she made a bit of a fuss.
I grant you, it's a difficult situation.
I'll grant you that there is no organization whatsover to these links.
Mappings:
VerbNet: conjecture-29.5-2
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Commentary:
NOTE: implies submitting to a higher authority
Examples:
He granted the Queen his life.
Therefore also I have granted him to the LORD. As long as he lives he is granted to the LORD.
It was he that had, some time before, granted Dearmhagh to God and to Colum Cille.
Mappings:
VerbNet: future_having-13.3
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6