<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="accept">
<note>
  Frames file for 'accept' based on survey of initial sentences of big
  corpus.
</note>

<roleset id="accept.01" name="take willingly" vncls="13.5.2 29.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="acceptor" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="29.2" vntheta="Agent"/><vnrole vncls="13.5.2" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

  <role descr="thing accepted" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="29.2" vntheta="Theme"/><vnrole vncls="13.5.2" vntheta="Theme"/></role>

  <role descr="accepted-from" n="2">
		
  <vnrole vncls="13.5.2" vntheta="Source"/></role>

  <role descr="attribute" n="3"><vnrole vncls="29.2" vntheta="Predicate"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="transitive agentive">
  <text>
  ...prevent them from *trace* accepting our superior cash offer.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">*trace*=them</arg>
  <rel>accepting</rel>
  <arg n="1">our superior cash offer</arg>
</example>

<example name="with donor">
  <text>
  He wouldn't accept anything of value from those he was writing about.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">He</arg>
  <arg f="MOD" n="m">would</arg>
  <arg f="NEG" n="m">n't</arg>
  <rel>accept</rel>
  <arg n="1">anything of value</arg>
  <arg f="from" n="2">those he was writing about</arg>
</example>

<note>
Treebank got the syntax here wrong.  "Anything" and "of value" are
split across two nodes--a complex argument will be necessary.
</note>

<example name="with attribute">
  <text>
  ...many practices historically accepted *trace* as normal here...
  </text>
  <arg n="1">*trace*=many practices</arg>
  <arg f="TMP" n="m">historically</arg>
  <rel>accepted</rel>
  <arg f="as" n="3">normal</arg>
  <arg f="LOC" n="m">here</arg>
</example>

<note>
</note>

</roleset>
</predicate>
</frameset>
