Predicate: want

Roleset id: want.01 , want, desire, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

want.01: WANT-V NOTES: Frames file for 'want' based on survey of initial sentences from big corpusand comparison to 'plan'VN updated by Julia, 10/2010. Member of Vncls appoint-29.1, want-32.1-1-1 (from want.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
want (v.)Possession Desiring

Roles:

        Passivized and Passivized with extraction are predicted, but unlikely:For the dam to be built is wanted by Czechoslovakia.The dam is wanted to be built by Czechoslovakia.(note the the latter is ambiguous--is Cz the wanter or the builder?) (from want.01-v)
        Arg0-PAG: Wanter (vnrole: 29.1-agent, 32.1-1-1-pivot)
        Arg1-PPT: thing wanted (vnrole: 29.1-theme, 29.1-result, 32.1-1-1-theme)
        Arg2-GOL: beneficiary
        Arg3-PPT: in-exchange-for
        Arg4-DIR: from

Example: transitive

        I want a flight from Ontario to Chicago

        Arg0: I
        Rel: want
        Arg1: a flight from Ontario to Chicago

Example: arg1 as infinitive

        I actually want *trace* to go from Ontario to Chicago

        Arg0: I
        Argm-adv: actually
        Rel: want
        Arg1: *trace* to go from Ontario to Chicago

Example: arg1 as infinitival sentence

        Czechoslovakia still wants the dam to be built.

        Arg0: Czechoslovakia
        Argm-tmp: still
        Rel: wants
        Arg1: the dam to be built

Example: passive with extraction

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

        he-1 was wanted *trace*-1 as a suspect in a double murder

        Rel: wanted
        Arg1: *trace*-1 as a suspect in a double murder