Roleset shore.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "support, prop":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, supporter


Arg1:thing supported

Examples:

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


they all look basically like this (-)
Mr. Spoon said the plan is not an attempt *trace* to shore up a decline in ad pages in the first nine months of 1989; Newsweek's ad pages totaled 1,620, a drop of 3.2% from last year, according to Publishers Information Bureau.
Arg0:	*trace* -> the plan
REL:	[ shore] [ up]
Arg1:	a decline in ad pages in the first nine months of 1989

This seems to occur most often in the infinitive; be careful with the target of the subject trace.