Roleset subsidize.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to assist or support with a subsidy":

Roles:

Arg0:assister, agent


Arg1:entity subsidized

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
But the Population Council , a 37-year-old , $ 20 million [*U*] nonprofit organization that [*T*-487] has the backing of the Rockefeller and Mellon foundations and currently subsidizes most U.S. research on contraceptives , has recently been paying for U.S. studies of RU-486 on a license from its French developer , Roussel-Uclaf , a joint subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst and the French government .
Arg0:	[*T*-487] -> that -> a 37-year-old , $ 20 million [*U*] nonprofit organization
ArgM-TMP:	currently
REL:	subsidizes
Arg1:	most U.S. research on contraceptives

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


passive (-)
`` I 've heard from friends that state farms are subsidized [*-1] , '' Mr. Pyszkiewicz says [*T*-2] as his wife , Wieslawa , sets some chairs out in the sun .
REL:	subsidized
Arg1:	[*-1] -> state farms