Roleset offer.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "transaction":

Roles:

This actually conflates two senses, the "buy" sense and the "sell" sense. In the "buy" sense you offer cash for some commodity; in the "sell" sense you offer some commodity and hope to get some cash for it. Thus the "direct object" will vary between Arg1 and Arg2.

Arg0:entity offering


Arg1:commodity


Arg2:price


Arg3:benefactive or entity offered to

Examples:

ditransitive (-)
A solicitous Christian chauffeur offers the hero God's phone number.
Arg0:	A solicitous Christian chauffeur
REL:	offers
Arg3:	the hero
Arg1:	God's phone number

equally:


PP benefactive (-)
A solicitous Christian chauffeur offers God's phone number to the hero.
Arg0:	A solicitous Christian chauffeur
REL:	offers
Arg1:	God's phone number
Arg3-to:	the hero




cash as direct object (-)
Temple offered $50 million for Sea Containers
Arg0:	Temple
REL:	offered
Arg2:	$50 million
Arg1-for:	Sea Containers




commodity as direct object (-)
Coche-Dury offered its 1987 Corton-Charlemagne for $155.
Arg0:	Coche-Dury
REL:	offered
Arg1:	its 1987 Corton-Charlemagne
Arg2-for:	$155

Careful with "for" phrases:


for-phrase as price (-)
The company offers a word-processing package for $100.
Arg0:	The company
REL:	offers
Arg1:	a word-processing package
Arg2-for:	$100




for-phrase included in commodity (-)
The company offers a word-processing package for personal computers.
Arg0:	The company
REL:	offers
Arg1:	a word-processing package for personal computers




arg1 as infinitive (-)
New England Electric offered $2 billion to acquire PS of New Hampshire.
Arg0:	New England Electric
REL:	offered
Arg2:	$2 billion
Arg1:	to acquire PS of New Hampshire




contrasting with above (-)
New England Electric offered $2 billion for PS of New Hampshire.
Arg0:	New England Electric
REL:	offered
Arg2:	$2 billion
Arg1-for:	PS of New Hampshire




another arg1 as infinitive (-)
Fujitsu essentially offered *trace* to do it for free.
Arg0:	Fujitsu
ArgM-ADV:	essentially
REL:	offered
Arg1:	*trace* to do it for free.

Theoretically also with benefactive (but I doubt we'll see any):


benefactive direct object (-)
John offered Mary to rub her shoulders
Arg0:	John
REL:	offered
Arg3:	Mary
Arg1:	to rub her shoulders