Frameset

Predicate urge:

Frames file for 'urge' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, Framenet entries Request and Suasion1. Comparison to verbs of compelled action (ie, force).

Roleset urge.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "impelled action":

Roles:

Arg0:urger

Arg1:impelled agent

Arg2:impelled action

Examples:

present

active

gerund

typical usage (-)
`Dealers said the multinational oil company was pressured by recent brokerage recommendations urging investors to switch into Shell Trading & Transport.`
Arg0:	recent brokerage recommendations
REL:	urging
Arg1:	investors
Arg2:	to switch into Shell Trading & Transport

person: ns tense: present aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle
odd variant syntax (-)

Analysts continued to speculate late last week that Ford may try to force the issue by calling for a special shareholder's meeting and urging that the government and Jaguar holders remove the barriers to a full bidding contest before December 1990.

Arg0: *trace* -> *trace* -> Ford

REL: urging

Arg1: the government and Jaguar holders

Arg2: remove the barriers to a full bidding contest before December 1990

odd variant syntax (-)
`Analysts continued to speculate late last week that Ford may try to force the issue by calling for a special shareholder's meeting and urging that the government and Jaguar holders remove the barriers to a full bidding contest before December 1990.`
Arg0:	trace -> trace -> Ford
REL:	urging
Arg1:	the government and Jaguar holders
Arg2:	remove the barriers to a full bidding contest before December 1990

Note that this is exactly equivalent to "Ford urged the gov't and Jag holders to remove the barriers..." This verb highlights the similarity between "force" and "request", which are currently framed oppositely. One or the other will have to be changed, eventually.