<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="tie">
<note>
  Frames file for 'tie' based on survey of sentences in financial
  corpus.  Verbnet class tape-22.4; this is the first member to be
  framed.  Comparison to 'match' to avoid whole figure/ground issue.
</note>

<roleset id="tie.01" name="attach" vncls="22.4">
<roles>
  <role descr="agent, entity doing the tying" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="22.4" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

  <role descr="patient, thing(s) being tied" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="22.4" vntheta="Patient1"/></role>

  <role descr="instrument, string" n="2">
		
  <vnrole vncls="22.4" vntheta="Patient2"/></role>

  <role descr="attribute of arg1" n="3"/>
</roles>

<example name="two arg1s">
  <text>
    Not only is development of the new company's initial machine tied
    *trace* directly to Mr. Cray, so is its balance sheet.
  </text>
  <arg n="1">*trace*=development of the new company's initial
  machine</arg> 
  <rel>tied</rel>
  <arg f="ADV" n="m">directly</arg>
  <arg f="to" n="1">Mr. Cray</arg>
</example>

<example name="with instrument">
  <text>
  John tied the packages with twine.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">John</arg>
  <rel>tied</rel>
  <arg n="1">the packages</arg>
  <arg f="with" n="2">twine</arg>
</example>

<example name="with attributive">
  <text>
  John tied the packages together.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">John</arg>
  <rel>tied</rel>
  <arg n="1">the packages</arg>
  <arg n="3">together</arg>
</example>

<note>
This almost seems like a phrasal verb, but since the "together" now
describes the state of the object-of-tying, let's treat it as an
attributive.  Note that the same is not true of "tie up" "tie down",
etc.  These will take the same roleset as plain old "tie", except for
the attribute.
</note>

</roleset>


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="tie_in">


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="tie_up">




</predicate>

<predicate lemma="tie_down">


</predicate>
</frameset>
