Roleset buttress.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to support or reinforce":

Roles:

Arg0:supporter, agent


Arg1:entity buttressed

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
A number of commercial grain users buttressed that opinion yesterday by [*] buying certain corn options for delivery in March , [*] indicating to analysts that the commercial companies would use the options [*-1] to hedge against expected corn sales in next year 's first quarter .
Arg0:	A number of commercial grain users
REL:	buttressed
Arg1:	that opinion
ArgM-TMP:	yesterday
ArgM-MNR:	by [*] buying certain corn options for delivery in March
ArgM-ADV:	[*] indicating to analysts that the commercial companies would use the options [*-1] to hedge against expected corn sales in next year 's first quarter