Roleset hasten.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to speed up":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, causer


Arg1:thing hastened

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: active form: infinitive


transitive (-)
I personally do not want [*-1] to hasten Mr. Lehman 's demise , but I can see him figuring prominently in his own article .
Arg0:	[*-1] -> I personally
REL:	hasten
Arg1:	Mr. Lehman 's demise