Roleset nail.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to establish firmly":

Roles:

Arg0:establisher


Arg1:entity nailed

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
But Dr. Vogelstein had yet [*-2] to nail the identity of the gene that [*T*-1] , if [*-3] damaged [*-4] , flipped a colon cell into full-blown malignancy .
Arg0:	[*-2] -> Dr. Vogelstein
REL:	nail
Arg1:	the identity of the gene that [*T*-1] , if [*-3] damaged [*-4] , flipped a colon cell into full-blown malignancy

Roleset nail.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "to narrow down, finalize":

Roles:

Arg0:finalizer


Arg1:entity nailed down

Examples:

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


transitive with adverbials (-)
Discrepancies go unexplained in `` Confidential '' ( one ex-player claims [0] he received $ 4,000 to $ 5,000 [*U*] for his season football tickets while others said [0] theirs brought only a few hundred dollars ) , and when Mr. Keteyian ca n't nail down something , like who [*T*-2] really owned a car driven [*] by Husker tailback Doug Dubose [*T*-1] , he simply reprints his notes .
Arg0:	Mr. Keteyian
ArgM-MOD:	ca
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	[ nail] [ down]
Arg1:	something , like who [*T*-2] really owned a car driven [*] by Husker tailback Doug Dubose
ArgM-TMP:	[*T*-1] -> when