<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="bow">
<note>
  Frames file for 'bow' based on annotation-on-the fly in the
  financial subcorpus and comparison with 'leave' (for 'bow_out')
</note>

<roleset id="bow.01" name="bend at waist" vncls="40.3.3">
<roles>
  <role descr="bower" n="0"><vnrole vncls="40.3.3" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="bowed to" n="1"><vnrole vncls="40.3.3" vntheta="Recipient"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="made up">
  <text>
  John bowed to the King of Spain.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">John</arg>
  <rel>bowed</rel>
  <arg f="to" n="1">the King of Spain</arg>
</example>

<example name="metaphorical">
  <text>
  John bowed to the superior experience of his mother.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">John</arg>
  <rel>bowed</rel>
  <arg f="to" n="1">the superior experience of his mother</arg>
</example>

<note>
The metaphorical usage could be referred to as "defer to".
</note>

</roleset>

<roleset id="bow.02" name="bend" vncls="47.3 47.6 50">
<roles>
  <role descr="thing bending" n="1">
	  
          
          <vnrole vncls="47.6" vntheta="Theme"/><vnrole vncls="47.3" vntheta="Theme"/><vnrole vncls="50" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="bend">
  <text>
     I saw a steel beam bow six feet from where I was sitting.
  </text>
  <arg n="1">a steel beam</arg>
  <rel>bow</rel>
  <arg f="LOC" n="m">six feet from where I was sitting</arg>
</example>

<note>
This seems to the same roleset, and is closely related, but the word is pronounced differently--[boh] rather than [bau].
</note>
</roleset>


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="bow_down">

<roleset id="bow.04" name="bend at waist, more emphatically" vncls="40.3.3">
<roles>
  <role descr="bower" n="0"><vnrole vncls="40.3.3" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="bowed to" n="1"><vnrole vncls="40.3.3" vntheta="Recipient"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="worship">
  <text>
  The Bible forbids us *trace* to bow down to graven images.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">*trace*=us</arg>
  <rel>bow down</rel>
  <arg f="to" n="1">graven images</arg>
</example>

</roleset>
</predicate>

<predicate lemma="bow_out">


</predicate>
</frameset>
