Roleset spare.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to save or relieve from":

Roles:

Arg0:savior


Arg1:entity spared


Arg2:entity spared from

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


all arguments (-)
Many women may even see the dead embryo [0] they have expelled [*T*-1] , a sight [0] the surgical-abortion industry typically spares them [*T*-2] .
Arg0:	the surgical-abortion industry
ArgM:	typically
REL:	spares
Arg1:	them
Arg2:	[*T*-2] -> [0] -> a sight

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


prepositional Arg2 (-)
Several factors apparently spared the Valley -- a sprawling suburban stretch from San Jose to Palo Alto -- from the kind of impact felt [*] in San Francisco , an hour 's drive north .
Arg0:	Several factors
ArgM-MOD:	apparently
REL:	spared
Arg1:	the Valley -- a sprawling suburban stretch from San Jose to Palo Alto --
Arg2-from:	the kind of impact felt [*] in San Francisco , an hour 's drive north

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


peril as syntactic subject (-)
Others are trying to find specialty defense work spared [*] by the slowdown or new niches created by budget-cutting.
REL:	spared
Arg1:	[*] -> specialty defense work
Arg2-by:	the slowdown

Roleset spare.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "to give up, part with":

Roles:

Arg0:agent able to do without


Arg1:entity spared

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


transitive (-)
A private challenge to the monolithic tractor industry will take more time and money than Poland can spare [*?*] , although a smokehouse or a local dairy can spring up fast .
Arg0:	Poland
ArgM-MOD:	can
REL:	spare
Arg1:	[*?*] -> more time and money