Roleset rejoin.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "attach":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, entity doing the tying


Arg1:patient, thing(s) being tied


Arg2:instrument, string

Examples:

straight transitive (-)
Mr. Harper, a veteran of several manufacturing companies who *trace* rejoined Campbell in 1986, will take charge of all overseas operations as well as Pepperidge.
Arg0:	*trace* -> who -> a veteran
REL:	rejoined
Arg1:	Campbell
ArgM-TMP:	in 1986




rejoin in (-)
Bowing to criticism, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer rejoined PaineWebber in suspending stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts.
Arg0:	Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley and Oppenheimer
REL:	rejoined
Arg1:	PaineWebber
ArgM:	in suspending stock-index arbitrage trading for their own accounts




rejoin as (-)
In Barry Wright, Mr. Sim sees a situation ``very similar'' to the one he faced when he rejoined Applied as president and chief operating officer in 1985.
Arg0:	he
REL:	rejoined
Arg1:	Applied
ArgM:	as president and chief operating officer
ArgM-TMP:	in 1985




with instrument (-)
John rejoined the fragments of his coffee cup with duct tape.
Arg0:	John
REL:	rejoined
Arg1:	the fragments of his coffee cup
Arg2-with:	duct tape

Oddly, this is the sense predicted by verbnet, but it doesn't seem to occur in the corpus. Yet?