Rolesets - ensure

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.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: agent/cause
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

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
.