Rolesets - become

become

become.01 - change of state

BECOME-V NOTES: Frames file for 'become' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry. (from become.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

become (v.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: entity changing
ARG2-PRD: new state

all examples look like this

Plans that give advertisers discounts for maintaining or increasing ad spendingARG1
have
becomerel
permanent fixtures at the news weekliesARG2
and underscore the fierce competition between Newsweek , TimeWarner Inc. 's Time magazine , and Mortimer B. Zuckerman 's U.S. News & World Report .

become.02 - be attractive or well suited

BECOME-V NOTES: Frames file for 'become' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry. (from become.02-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

become (v.)
becoming (j.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: appealing or fetching thing
ARG2-GOL: who or what it is become on/for?

ARG

A cap , an apron , or a handkerchief , which , I am told , looks hideous upon herARG1
, I always find is
veryARGM-ADV
becomingrel
on any other of the familyARG2

become.03 - auxiliary

BECOME-V NOTES: Frames file for 'become' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry. (from become.03-v predicate notes)
do not tag--no arguments! Remember-- aux usages will be followed by a VP node, rather than an NP or ADJ node. (from become.03-v)

Aliases:

become (v.)

Roles:

became known (note that a trace follows the subsequent verb)

They
becomerel
known as The Eight Great Outlaws .

again, note the trace after second verb. 'intertwined' is in a VP node

It is time to recognize that the New York Stock Exchange , the futures markets and the options markets , though physically separate , have actually
becomerel
so closely intertwined as to constitute one market effectively .

Bork Bork Bork

One can understand Mr. Bork 's fear that the new right to privacy will
becomerel
intolerably stretched .