Predicate: postpone

Roleset id: postpone.01 , delay, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

postpone.01: POSTPONE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'postpone' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, Framenet entry Relative time. Other framed members include delay. Comparison with delay. (from postpone.01-v predicate notes) POSTPONEMENT-N NOTES: Roleset based on verb postpone.01, no mapping to VN. Framed by Claire. (from postponement.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
postponement (n.)
postpone (v.)

Roles:

        Arg 2: "delay itself" is duration of delay NOT cause of delay, this would be argm-CAU (from postpone.01-v)
        Arg0-PAG: agent, causer of delay
        Arg1-PPT: event delayed
        Arg2-EXT: delay itself, EXT, time period, how long arg 1 was delayed for
        Arg3-DIR: original time
        Arg4-GOL: new time

Example: just transitive

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        A state judge postponed a decision on a move by holders of Telerate Inc. to block the tender offer of Dow Jones& Co. for the 33% of Telerate it doesn't already own.

        Arg0: A state judge
        Rel: postponed
        Arg1: a decision on a move by holders of Telerate Inc. to block the tender offer of Dow Jones& Co. for the 33% of Telerate it doesn't already own

Example: with MNR

        person: ns,  tense: future,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Separately, the Ontario Supreme Court said it will postpone indefinitely a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid.

        Arg0: it
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: postpone
        Arg2: indefinitely
        Arg1: a ruling on the lawsuit launched by the University of Toronto against Connaught in connection with the Merieux bid

Example: start and end points

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        [TW's stockholder meeting]-1 was postponed *trace*-1 from tomorrow to Nov. 21.

        Rel: postponed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg3: from tomorrow
        Arg4: to Nov. 21

Example: Fragment, Args 1, 2, and cause

        a five-day postponement of the flight because of a faulty enginecomputer

        Arg2: five-day
        Rel: postponement
        Arg1: of the flight
        Arg0: because of a faulty engine computer

Example: Arg 1 only

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

        Assyrians are so determined and the government is so determined , to meet all the deadlines and to not get any postponement of this uh political process...

        Rel: postponement
        Arg1: of this uh political process

Example: Args 1, 3, 4

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

        Observers say that the postponement of elections from January 2011 to April 2011 has done a big blow on Jonathan.

        Rel: postponement
        Arg1: of elections
        Arg3: from January 2011
        Arg4: to April 2011