Roleset lease.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "be a renter":

Roles:

Arg0:renter


Arg1:thing rented (eg, apartment)


Arg2:landlord


Arg3:rent


Arg4:term

Examples:

just transitive (-)
Once its ownership is finalized, the new company will open talks with state-appointed receivers *trace* to buy or lease Waertsilae Marine's shipyard facilities.
Arg0:	*trace* -> the new company
REL:	lease
Arg1:	Waertsilae Marine's shipyard facilities




all args except term (-)
John leased an apartment from Mary for a buck a minute.
Arg0:	John
REL:	leased
Arg1:	an apartment
Arg2-from:	Mary
Arg3-for:	a buck a minute

The syntax only seems to allow for two prepositional args; I can't get a grammatical reading with both 'price' and 'term,' even though clearly the 'term' is a required semantic arg: 'John leased an apartment for a month.'

Roleset lease.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "be a landlord":

Roles:

Arg0:landlord


Arg1:thing rented (eg, apartment)


Arg2:renter


Arg3:rent


Arg4:term

Examples:

automatically generated (-)
But he said IBM would have won the business anyway as a sale to a third party that would have then leased the equipment to the customer .
Arg0:	*trace* -> that -> a third party
ArgM-MOD:	would
ArgM-TMP:	then
REL:	leased
Arg1:	the equipment
Arg2-to:	the customer




all args except term (-)
Mary leased an apartment to John for buck a minute.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	leased
Arg1:	an apartment
Arg2-to:	John
Arg3-for:	buck a minute