Predicate
position:
Frames file for 'position' based on sentences in financial
subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison to 'set' and 'call'.
Roleset position.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "put in a particular location, or describe":
Roles:
Arg0:agent, putter
Arg1:thing positioned, often REC
Arg2:location or position, or attribute of arg1
Examples:
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verbal (-) |
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One investment banker said Mr. Steinberg may be trying *trace* to
position himself as a friendly investor who could help UAL
Chairman Stephen Wolf revive a failed labor-management bid.
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| Arg0: | *trace* -> Mr. Steinberg |
| REL: | position |
| Arg1-TMP: | himself |
| Arg2-as: | a friendly investor who could help UAL
Chairman Stephen Wolf revive a failed labor-management
bid |
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adjectival, sorta (-) |
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He attributed the unusually high volume to broad-based selling on
fears that the Thatcher government may be in turmoil and Britain's
Labor Party positioned *trace* to regain control of the government
and renew efforts at nationalization.
|
| REL: | positioned |
| Arg1: | *trace* -> Britain's Labor Party |
| Arg2: | to regain control of the government and
renew efforts at nationalization |
The latter example actually effectively has S[ NP[ Britain's Labor
Party] VP[ regain control...]]. Damn those ECM verbs already!