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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="read">
<note>
  Frames file for 'read' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
  No access to verbnet.
</note>

<roleset id="read.01" name="read" vncls="14 37.1-1 54.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="reader" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="37.1-1" vntheta="Agent"/><vnrole vncls="14" vntheta="Agent"/><vnrole vncls="54.1" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

  <role descr="book" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="37.1-1" vntheta="Topic"/><vnrole vncls="14" vntheta="Source"/><vnrole vncls="54.1" vntheta="Theme"/></role>

  <role descr="benefactive or direction" n="2">
		
  <vnrole vncls="37.1-1" vntheta="Recipient"/><vnrole vncls="54.1" vntheta="Attribute"/></role>

  <role descr="text, content" n="3">
		
  <vnrole vncls="14" vntheta="Topic"/></role>

</roles>

<example name="prototypical reading">
<text>
    ``I've read Balzac,'' he answers critics.
</text>
        <arg n="0">I</arg>
        <rel>read</rel>
        <arg n="1">Balzac</arg>
</example>

<example name="not quite a book">
<text>
    A fund manager at a life-insurance company said three factors make
    it difficult *trace* to read market direction. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace*</arg>
        <rel>read</rel>
        <arg n="1">market direction</arg>
</example>

<example name="with direction">
<text>
    ``My belief is always, if you've got a settlement, you read it
    into the record.'' says Judge Jenkins, now known in his courthouse
    as ``Shake 'Em Down Jenkins.'' 
</text>
        <arg f="ADV" n="M">if you've got a settlement</arg>
        <arg n="0">you</arg>
        <rel>read</rel>
        <arg n="1">it</arg>
        <arg f="into" n="2">the record</arg>
</example>

<example name="with benefactive">
  <text>
    John reads to his children every night.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">John</arg>
  <rel>reads</rel>
  <arg f="to" n="2">his children</arg>
  <arg f="TMP" n="m">every night</arg>
</example>

<example name="book and text">
  <inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
  <text>
  ``Due to health reasons, Lt. Col. Noriega has elected to postpone
  his visit to Washington,'' it read *trace*.
  </text>
  <arg n="1">it</arg>
  <rel>read</rel>
  <arg n="3">*trace* -&gt; Due to health reasons,
  Lt. Col. Noriega has elected to postpone his visit to Washington</arg>
</example>

<note>
"It" is obviously not doing the reading, nor is it being read to.
Instead, someone is reading "it" (the message?) and the content is the
bit in quotes.
</note>

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