Predicate: fund

Roleset id: fund.01 , provide money for, providing financial backing, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

fund.01: FUND-V NOTES: Frames file for 'fund' based on survey of sentences in financial subcorpus and comparison with 'finance.' No verbnet entry. (from fund.01-v predicate notes) FUNDING-N NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT, 'fund-v.01'. No corresponding VNcls. (from funding.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
funding (n.)
fund (v.)

Roles:

        Recipients separate from the project itself may occur with noun usages. Use ArgM-GOL for these cases.
        Arg0-PAG: financier
        Arg1-GOL: project, whom/what is being funded?
        Arg2-PPT: funds

Example: active

        [Cray Research]-1 did not want *trace*-1 to fund a project that did not include Seymour.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: fund
        Arg1: a project that did not include Seymour.

Example: passive, with instrument (money)

        [The contributions]-1 were funded *trace*-1 by monthly payments of $1,000 to $2,000 to Appleyard.

        Arg1: *trace*
        Rel: funded
        Arg2: by monthly payments of $1,000 to $2,000 to Appleyard.

Example: instrumental subject

        Of the proceeds, [$500 million]-1 will be used *trace*-1 to fund its tender offer.

        Arg2: *trace*
        Rel: fund
        Arg1: its tender offer.

Example: all args

        Orkem, France's third-largest chemical group, said it would fund the acquisition through internal resources.

        Arg0: it
        Argm-mod: would
        Rel: fund
        Arg1: the acquisition
        Arg2: through internal resources

Example: just arg1

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

        It makes me cringe that the government are cutting funding for the British people , and yet somehow fund the military to rain clusters of bombs over foreign people !

        Rel: funding
        Arg1: for the British people

Example: with MNR, arg2

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

        total program funding was stabilized at an average per-pupil funding of $6,474.

        Argm-adj: average
        Argm-mnr: per-pupil
        Rel: funding
        Arg2: of $6,474

Example: MNR and arg1

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

        Were they distributed equally on a per-pupil basis, each district would receive $46 per student, approximately the mean per-pupil funding for professional development.3

        Argm-adj: mean
        Argm-mnr: per-pupil
        Rel: funding
        Arg1: for professional development

Example: MNR and arg1

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

        The first fairness measure is the overall level of per-pupil funding for each state, as compared with the 50 states.

        Argm-mnr: per-pupil
        Rel: funding
        Arg1: for each state