ensure
ensure.01 - promise, ensure, make sure, guarantee (to do/be)
ENSURE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'ensure' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. Comparison to 'guarantee'. (from ensure.01-v predicate notes)SURE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on WordNet. Corresponds to VNcls ensure-99. (from sure.02-j)
Aliases:
ensure (v.)
sure (j.)
make_sure (l.)
sure (j.)
make_sure (l.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: agent/cause
ARG1-PPT: to what (may require concatenation)
ARG2-GOL: benefactive
ARG1-PPT: to what (may require concatenation)
ARG2-GOL: benefactive
ensure-v: sentential guarantee
Merieux previously said
itARG0
wouldARGM-MOD
ensurerel
its bid remained open pending a final decision by Canadian regulators on whether to approve the takeoverARG1
.ensure-v: NP guarantee
The complaint alleges that the price is `` unfair and grossly inadequate '' and that
the defendantsARG0
are seeking to ensurerel
a `` lockup '' of the purchase of UnitelARG1
, thereby discouraging other bids .sure-j: both args
be
surerel
to lock the doorsARG1
sure-j: concatenation
heARG1
is surerel
to winC-ARG1
sure
sure.02 - believing absolutely
SURE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on WSJ data. (from sure.01-j)Aliases:
sure (j.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: believer
ARG1-PPT: belief
ARG1-PPT: belief
sure-j: both args
Peter Anthony , who runs an employment agency in New York , decries program trading as `` limiting the game to a few , '' but
heARG0
alsoARGM-ADV
is n'tARGM-NEG
surerel
it should be more strictly regulatedARG1
.