Roleset cast.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "cover, throw":

Roles:

Arg0:thrower


Arg1:thing thrown


Arg2:thrown over, covered

Examples:

cast a pall (-)
All this has cast a pall over Columbia Savings & Loan Association and its high-rolling 43-year-old chairman, Thomas Spiegel, who built the $12.7 billion Beverly Hills, Calif., thrift with high-yield junk bonds.
Arg1:	a pall
Arg0:	All this
REL:	cast
Arg2-over:	Columbia Savings & Loan Association and its high-rolling 43-year-old chairman, Thomas Spiegel, who built the $12.7 billion Beverly Hills, Calif., thrift with high-yield junk bonds




cast doubt (-)
That collapse, following on the heels of disarray in the market for high-risk, high-yield bonds, cast doubt on the entire takeover business, which has fueled both big profits among Wall Street securities firms and big gains in the stock market generally.
Arg0:	That collapse, following on the heels of disarray in the market for high-risk, high-yield bonds,
REL:	cast
Arg1:	doubt
Arg2-on:	the entire takeover business

I doubt this occurs except in these two idioms, and maybe flycasting (fishing).

Roleset cast.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "name, assign a role":

Roles:

Arg0:namer, assigner of a role


Arg1:entity playing the role


Arg2:role

Examples:

casting call (-)
*trace-1* Cast *trace-2* as Violetta Valery in a new production of Verdi's ``La Traviata,'' Ms. Gruberova last week did many things nicely and others not so well.
REL:	Cast
Arg1:	*trace-2* -> *trace-1* -> Ms. Gruberova
Arg2-as:	Violetta Valery
ArgM-LOC:	in a new production of Verdi's ``La Traviata

Roleset cast.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "blacksmithing":

Roles:

Arg0:metalworker, agent (possible but unlikely)


Arg1:metal

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


usually adjectival (-)
In fact, they've spent billions of dollars to boost the percentage of continously cast steel to 60.9% in 1988, from 39.6% five years before.
Argm-MNR:	continuously
REL:	cast
Arg1:	steel