Roleset negotiate.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "work out terms of agreement":

Roles:

Arg0:negotiator


Arg1:explicit other party


Arg2:agreement

Examples:

NP/PP (-)
Both companies are in the process of *trace* negotiating contracts with LTV and others.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Both companies
REL:	negotiating
Arg2:	contracts
Arg1-with:	LTV and others




double PP (-)
It recently signed a preliminary agreement *trace* to negotiate exclusively with the Bank of Tokyo Ltd. for the sale of part of its leasing business to the Japanese bank.
Arg0:	*trace* -> It
REL:	negotiate
Arg1-with:	the Bank of Tokyo Ltd.
Arg2-for:	the sale of part of its leasing business to the Japanese bank




unstated agreement (-)
Although Georgia Gulf hasn't been eager *trace* to negotiate with Mr. Simmons and NL, a specialty chemicals concern...
Arg0:	*trace* -> Georgia Gulf
REL:	negotiate
Arg1-with:	Mr. Simmons and NL, a specialty chemicals concern,




unstated co-negotiator (-)
Santa Fe has disclosed that it is negotiating to sell a 20% interest in its real estate unit to the California Public Employees Retirement System for roughly $400 million.
Arg0:	it
REL:	negotiating
Arg2:	to sell a 20 % interest in its real estate unit to the California Public Employees Retirement System for roughly $400 million

Treebank sometimes puts the co-negotiator in with the agreement, which is certainly plausible (ie, "negotiating a pact with GM" is it a pact with GM or a negotiation with GM? (Both, really.) Follow Treebank's parsing.