Predicate: pile
Roleset id: pile.01 , make a pile, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
pile.01: PILE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'pile' based on sentences in wsj and automaticexpansion via verbnet. (from pile.01-v predicate notes)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
pile (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: piler (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: substance being piled (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-theme)
        Arg2-GOL: explicit mention of pile, or destination/location (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-destination)
Example: all args
        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        In 1987, KKR for the second time piled debt onto Storer's TV stations, selling them for $1.3 billion to a new entity that was 45%-owned by KKR and 55%-owned by Gillett Corp., which now operates the SCI TV stations.
        Argm-tmp: In 1987
        Arg0: KKR
        Argm-tmp: for the second time
        Rel: piled
        Arg1: debt
        Arg2: onto Storer's TV stations
        Argm-adv: selling them for $1.3 billion to a new entity that was 45%-owned by KKR and 55%-owned by Gillett Corp, which now operates the SCI TV stations
Example: ergative
        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        Now, though, enormous costs for earthquake relief will pile on top of outstanding costs for hurricane relief.
        Argm-tmp: Now
        Argm-dis: though
        Arg1: enormous costs for earthquake relief
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: pile
        Arg2: on top of outstanding costs for hurricane relief
Roleset id: pile.03 , move in an untidy fashion, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
pile.03: PILE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'pile' based on sentences in wsj and automaticexpansion via verbnet. (from pile.03-v predicate notes)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
pile (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg1-PPT: entity in motion
        Arg2-GOL: destination
Example: Keystone Kops
        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        They pile out of their truck and furiously begin twisting together steel pipes linking a giant storage tank to the Sharpshooter, a freshly drilled oil well two miles deep.
        Arg1: They
        Rel: pile
        Arg2: out of their truck
Predicate: pile_up
Roleset id: pile_up.02 , make a pile, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
pile_up.02: PILE_UP-V NOTES: I personally would have left the "up" particle out, but whatever. (from pile.02-v)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
pile_up (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: agent of piling
        Arg1-PPT: substance being piled
Example: usually ergative?
        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        In the additional time they provide even more order imbalances might pile up, as would-be sellers finally get their broker on the phone.
        Argm-tmp: In the additional time they provide
        Arg1: even more order imbalances
        Argm-mod: might
        Rel: [ pile] [ up]
        Argm-tmp: as would-be sellers finally get their broker on the phone
Example: sometimes agentive
        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        A celebrity guest, U.S. Ambassador to West Germany Richard Burt, also won a bet that someone could pile up $150 worth of quarters on a slanted coin.
        Arg0: someone
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: [ pile] [ up]
        Arg1: $150 worth of quarters
        Argm-loc: on a slanted coin
Predicate: pile_on
Roleset id: pile_on.04 , add to a pile, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
pile_on.04: PILE_ON-V NOTES: Note that 'pile on' can take several different interpretations,depending on how the treebankers have assigned the syntax. (from pile.04-v predicate notes)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
pile_on (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: agent of piling
        Arg1-PPT: substance being piled
        Arg2-GOL: explicit mention of pile
Example: agentive
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle
        SCI TV, which expects to release a plan to restructure $1.3 billion of debt in the next day or so, isn't just another LBO that *trace*-1 went bad after *trace*-1 piling on debt -- though it did do that.
        Arg0: *trace*
        Argm-rcl: that -> just another LBO
        Rel: [ piling] [ on]
        Arg1: debt