<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="unify">
<note>
  Frames file for 'unify' based on sentences in wsj.  Verbnet entry
  22.2, Framenet entry Amalgamate.
</note>

<roleset id="unify.01" name="join together" vncls="22.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="joiner, agent" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="22.2" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="(first) thing(s) being unified" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="22.2" vntheta="Patient1"/></role>
  <role descr="other things, if separate from arg1" n="2">
        <vnrole vncls="22.2" vntheta="Patient2"/></role>
  <role descr="unified whole" n="3"/>
</roles>

<example name="simple transitive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="infinitive" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="ns"/>
<text>
     Arguing that the separate financial marketplaces acted as one,
     and concluding that the crash had ``raised the possibility of a
     full-scale financial system breakdown,'' the presidential task
     force called for establishing a super-regulator to oversee the
     markets, to make margins consistent across markets, *trace* to
     unify clearing systems and to install circuit breakers. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace* -&gt;  a super-regulator</arg>
        <rel>unify</rel>
        <arg n="1">clearing systems</arg>
</example>

<example name="separate things">
  <inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
  <text>
     John unified his sense of fair play with Mary's violent tendencies.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">John</arg>
  <rel>unified</rel>
  <arg n="1">his sense of fair play</arg>
  <arg f="with" n="2">Mary's violent tendencies</arg>
</example>

<example name="pieces and whole">
  <inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="past" voice="passive"/>
  <text>
     John's sense of fair play and Mary's violent tendencies were
     unified *trace* into a very unhealthy living situation.
  </text>
  <rel>unified</rel>
  <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt; John's sense of fair play and Mary's
  violent tendencies</arg> 
  <arg f="into" n="3">a very unhealthy living situation</arg>
</example>

<example name="adjectival">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    That's why ``we have been working hard to develop a single, more
    unified presence in Europe,'' said A.J.C. Smith, Marsh &amp;
    McLennan's president, at a London news conference yesterday. 
</text>
        <arg f="EXT" n="M">more</arg>
        <rel>unified</rel>
        <arg n="1">presence</arg>
</example>

<note>
</note>

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