Roleset miss.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "long for":

Roles:

Arg0:person experiencing emotion


Arg1:thing longed for

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


Romeo, Romeo, where art thou Romeo? (-)
Moreover, the price volatility that is amplified by program trading is undercutting efforts to woo individual investors back to an OTC market that *trace* sorely misses them.
Arg0:	*trace* -> that -> an OTC market
ArgM-MNR:	sorely
REL:	misses
Arg1:	them

Roleset miss.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "not hit, skip":

Roles:

Arg0:misser


Arg1:missed


Arg2:instrument

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


oops (-)
The company has already missed its initial Oct. 1 target date for completing the merger.
Arg0:	The company
ArgM-TMP:	already
REL:	missed
Arg1:	its initial Oct. 1 target date for completing the merger

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


you sank my battleship! (-)
Mary missed John with the hammer.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	missed
Arg1:	John
Arg2-with:	the hammer

Latter example is a little weird, but serves to distinguish the rolesets.

Roleset miss.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "miss out: completely miss":

Roles:

Arg0:entity missing something


Arg1:thing missed

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


some guys have all the luck (-)
One was that, despite his 62 regular-season wins over the past three seasons in the Land Beyond the Late News, he has been overshadowed by his more-muscular mates and missed out on prizes that might have been his due.
Argm-ADV:	despite his 62 regular-season wins over the past three seasons in the Land Beyond the Late News
Arg0:	he
REL:	missed out
Arg1-on:	prizes that might have been his due