Roleset breach.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "break":

Roles:

Arg0:breaker


Arg1:thing broken

Examples:

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


breach the agreement (-)
Under a merger agreement reached Sept. 14, the UAL board agreed to reimburse certain of the buy-out group's expenses out of company funds even if the transaction wasn't completed, provided the group didn't breach the agreement.
Arg0:	the group
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	breach
Arg1:	the agreement

This is rarely used as a real verb, instead usually occuring as a noun: "A breach of contract" etc. It is also used as of a whale coming up for air, but let's just assume that sense won't occur in WSJ.