Roleset identify.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "label, call":

Roles:

Arg0:caller


Arg1:item being labelled


Arg2:attribute

Examples:

just transitive (-)
It wouldn't identify the bankers.
Arg0:	It
ArgM-MOD:	would
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	identify
Arg1:	the bankers




passivized, with LONG trace chain (-)
``We're being paid today, but we're worried about tomorrow and will want'' letters of credit, says the sales director at one major dress maker who *trace-1* asked *trace-2* not to be identified *trace-3*.
ArgM-NEG:	not
REL:	identified
Arg1:	*trace-3* -> *trace-2* -> *trace-1* -> who -> one major dress maker

I wonder if that *trace-2* really should be in there, but that's the chain that treebank provides.


with attribute (-)
``A lot of people are identifying a vote for representation as a vote against Fred Smith,'' says J.X. Gollich, a Tiger-turned-Federal pilot and union activist.
Arg0:	A lot of people
REL:	identifying
Arg1:	a vote for representation
Arg2-as:	a vote against Fred Smith

Roleset identify.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "feel empathy":

Roles:

Arg0:feeler


Arg1:thing being identified with


Arg2:attribute

Examples:

(un-named example) (-)
John identified with the lonely monkey at the zoo.
Arg0:	John
REL:	identified
Arg1-with:	the lonely monkey
Argm-LOC:	at the zoo