<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="shoulder">
<note>
  Frames file for 'shoulder'  based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
  corpus. 
</note>

<roleset id="shoulder.01" name="to carry a burden" vncls="9.10">
<roles>
  <role descr="carrier, agent" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="9.10" vntheta="Agent"/></role>  
  <role descr="burden" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="9.10" vntheta="Theme"/></role>  
</roles>

<example name="transitive">
<inflection aspect="progressive" form="participle" person="ns" tense="present" voice="active"/>
<text>
 In addition , corporations are now shouldering a bigger share of the tax burden , as the authors of the 1986 law hoped .
</text>
	<arg f="DIS" n="M">In addition</arg>
	<arg n="0">corporations</arg>
	<arg f="TMP" n="M">now</arg>
	<rel>shouldering</rel>
	<arg n="1">a bigger share of the tax burden</arg>
	<arg f="ADV" n="M">as the authors of the 1986 law hoped</arg>
</example>



</roleset>
</predicate>


</frameset>
