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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="bill">
<note>
  Frames file for 'bill' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
  Verbnet entries 29.2 and 54.5, other framed members include
  classify, count, define, describe, emply, establish, intend,
  portray, rank, recommend, regard, treat, view (but those don't seem
  right to me); and concern (and that doesn't seem right at all.)  No
  Framenet entry.  Comparison with 'charge'.
</note>

<roleset id="bill.01" name="charge a fee" vncls="54.5">
<roles>
  <role descr="seller, biller" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="54.5" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

  <role descr="asking price, amount of bill" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="54.5" vntheta="Asset"/></role>

  <role descr="buyer, billed" n="2">
		
  <vnrole vncls="54.5" vntheta="Recipient"/></role>

  <role descr="commodity" n="3">
		
  <vnrole vncls="54.5" vntheta="Cause"/></role>

</roles>

<example name="no asking price">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="gerund" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="ns"/>
<text>
    According to one person familiar with the airline, the buy-out
    group -- led by United's pilots union and UAL Chairman Stephen
    Wolf -- has begun *trace* billing UAL for fees and expenses it
    owes to investment bankers, law firms and banks. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace* -&gt;  the buy-out group -- led by United's
        pilots union and UAL Chairman Stephen Wolf --</arg> 
        <rel>billing</rel>
        <arg n="2">UAL</arg>
        <arg f="for" n="3">fees and expenses it owes to investment
        bankers, law firms and banks</arg> 
</example>

<example name="with amount of bill">
  <inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
  <text>
    Mary billed John a hundred dollars for a single kiss.  And he paid
    it. 
  </text>
  <arg n="0">Mary</arg>
  <rel>billed</rel>
  <arg n="2">John</arg>
  <arg n="1">a hundred dollars</arg>
  <arg f="for" n="3">a single kiss</arg>
</example>

<note>
</note>

</roleset>

<roleset id="bill.02" name="describe" vncls="29.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="describer" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="29.2" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

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

  <role descr="secondary attribute, described-as" n="2">
		
  <vnrole vncls="29.2" vntheta="Predicate"/></role>

</roles>

<example name="passivized">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="past" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    That complex bid was billed *trace* as France's largest takeover
    ever (this one is slightly smaller). 
</text>
        <rel>billed</rel>
        <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt;  That complex bid</arg>
        <arg f="as" n="2">France 's largest takeover ever</arg>
</example>

<note>
I'm betting this sense always occurs in the passive.
</note>

</roleset>

</predicate>
</frameset>
