Predicate: culminate

Roleset id: culminate.01 , to reach the highest point, to end, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

culminate.01: CULMINATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'culminate' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus. (from culminate.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

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culminate (v.)

Roles:

        Arg1-PPT: entity ending
        Arg2-PRD: culmination point

Example: intransitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        In the six trading days since the UAL labor-management buy-out group failed [*-1] to get bank financing , [*]culminating Friday with the withdrawal of its partner British Airways PLC , UAL stock has plummeted by 41 % to 168 1\/2 from 285 1\/4 .

        Arg1: [*]
        Rel: culminating
        Argm-tmp: Friday
        Argm-adv: with the withdrawal of its partner British Airways PLC

Example: culminate in

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: perfect,  voice: active,  form: participle

        A licensed government intellectual , Francis Fukuyama , recently announced in The National Interest that history is , so [*] to speak [*T*-1], at an end since the course of human progress has now culminated in the glorious full stop of American civilization .

        Arg1: the course of human progress
        Argm-tmp: now
        Rel: culminated
        Arg2: in the glorious full stop of American civilization

Example: transitive

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

        Mr. Honecker 's ignoble fall culminates nearly two decades of iron-handed leadership during which Mr. Honecker , now 77 years old , built East Germany into the most economically advanced nation in the Soviet bloc [*T*-1] .

        Arg2: Mr. Honecker 's ignoble fall
        Rel: culminates
        Arg1: nearly two decades of iron-handed leadership during which Mr. Honecker , now 77 years old , built East Germany into the most economically advanced nation in the Soviet bloc [*T*-1]