Frameset

Predicate bow:

Frames file for 'bow' based on annotation-on-the fly in the financial subcorpus and comparison with 'leave' (for 'bow_out')

Roleset bow.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "bend at waist":

Roles:

Arg0:bower

Arg1:bowed to

Examples:

made up (-)
`John bowed to the King of Spain.`
Arg0:	John
REL:	bowed
Arg1-to:	the King of Spain

metaphorical (-)
John bowed to the superior experience of his mother.

Arg0: John

REL: bowed

Arg1-to: the superior experience of his mother

metaphorical (-)
`John bowed to the superior experience of his mother.`
Arg0:	John
REL:	bowed
Arg1-to:	the superior experience of his mother

The metaphorical usage could be referred to as "defer to".

Roleset bow.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "bend":

Roles:

Arg1:thing bending

Examples:

bend (-)
`I saw a steel beam bow six feet from where I was sitting.`
Arg1:	a steel beam
REL:	bow
Argm-LOC:	six feet from where I was sitting

This seems to the same roleset, and is closely related, but the word is pronounced differently--[boh] rather than [bau].

Roleset bow.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "fail":

Roles:

Arg1:thing failing

Examples:

(un-named example) (-)
`Eighteen months ago a disposable seven-day model bowed.`
Argm-TMP:	Eighteen months ago
Arg1:	a disposable seven-day model
REL:	bowed

This sentence makes no sense to me.

Predicate bow_down:

Roleset bow.04 Verbnet Class: 1 "bend at waist, more emphatically":

Roles:

Arg0:bower

Arg1:bowed to

Examples:

worship (-)
`The Bible forbids us trace to bow down to graven images.`
Arg0:	trace=us
REL:	bow down
Arg1-to:	graven images

Predicate bow_out:

Roleset bow.06 Verbnet Class: NONE "exit, leave":

Roles:

Arg0:entity leaving

Arg1:place left

Examples:

not a physical place left (-)
`New England Electric bowed out of the bidding for Public Service of New Hampshire.`
Arg0:	New England Electric
REL:	bowed out
Arg1-of:	the bidding for Public Service of New Hampshire.