Roleset amend.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "add to or correct":

Roles:

Arg0:amender, corrector


Arg1:thing amended


Arg2:secondary predication on arg1

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


just transitive (-)
The company said it amended its shareholder rights plan by reducing to 10% from 20% the level of ownership by an outsider that would trigger the issuance to other holders of rights to buy additional shares of Nashua common at half price.
Arg0:	it
REL:	amended
Arg1:	its shareholder rights plan
ArgM-MNR:	by reducing to 10% from 20% the level of ownership by an outsider that would trigger the issuance to other holders of rights to buy additional shares of Nashua common at half price

It's possible that the MNR above should be regarded as an instrument and therefore take a numbered argument (arg3, probably), but I don't think an instrument/"amendment" will actually occur all that often, and it actually sounds a little weird to me. We'll see. person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with secondary predication (-)
PS of New Hampshire amended its plan to call for two years of 5.5% rate increases followed by five years of 4.5% increases.
Arg0:	PS of New Hampshire
REL:	amended
Arg1:	its plan
Arg2:	to call for two years of 5.5% rate increases followed by five years of 4.5% increases

I read the latter sentence as the plan now calls for such-and-such increases, not that PS amended its plan in order to call for the increases. It's subtle.