Predicate: dicker
Roleset id: dicker.01 , argue in a petty manner, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
dicker.01: DICKER-V NOTES: Frames file for 'dicker' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 36.1. (from dicker.01-v predicate notes)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| dicker (v.) | | battle-36.4 |
Roles:
Arg0-PAG: first arguer (vnrole: 36.4-Agent)
Arg1-COM: second arguer (vnrole: 36.4-Co-Agent)
Arg2-PPT: topic (vnrole: 36.4-Theme)
Example: merged arguers
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
We have as much nostalgia as anyone for those leafy, breezy days in Washington when honorable men and women dickered over budgets and even log-rolled a bit to see that the bridges got build, roads paved, soldiers paid or that the desperately poor were cared for.
Arg0: honorable men and women
Rel: dickered
Arg2: over budgets
Example: ARG0 and ARG1
While Reagan 's special envoy was , with his usual energy and sharp elbows , dickering with the Iraqis in the mid-1980s , Condoleezza Rice was an assistant professor of no scholarly distinction at Stanford ; Cheney a third - term congressman from Wyoming squirming up the House leadership ladder ; future viceroy of Baghdad L. Paul `` Jerry '' Bremer moving from State Department clerk and Alexander Haig protege to lavish - party giving ambassador to the Netherlands ; and George W. Bush , still by his own account given to `` heavy drinking , '' absorbed in changing the name of his chronically failed Arbusto Energy oil company to Bush Exploration .
Arg0: Reagan 's special envoy
Argm-mnr: with his usual energy and sharp elbows
Rel: dickering
Arg1: with the Iraqis
Argm-tmp: in the mid-1980s