Rolesets - focus

focus

focus.01 - focus, concentrate

FOCUS-V NOTES: Frames file for 'focus' based on sentences in financial subcorpus; adjectival 'focused' found in BOLT-7. Member of VNcls focus-87.1 (from focus.01-v)
FOCUSED-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from focused.01-j)
The default arg1 is something like "its attention" (from focus.01-v)

Aliases:

focused (j.)
focus (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: agent, focuser
ARG1-PPT: thing focused
ARG2-GOL: focused-on

focus-v: all args

... will allow
the U.S. auto makerARG0
to
focusrel
its resourcesARG1
on the intensifying struggle with GM for a stake in JaguarARG2
.

focus-v: unstated thing focussed

Michael Carstens added that the sale of assets would allow
Sea ContainersARG0
to
focusrel
on its core container businessesARG2
.

focus-v: unstated target of focus

He said the improvement was a result of ... *trace*
focusingrel
more carefullyARGM-MNR
the company 's promotional activitiesARG1
.
ARG0: *trace*

focus-v: passivized

Dealers said
most investor interestARG1
was
focusedrel
on defensive blue - chip stocks , particularly those with limited U.K. exposureARG2
.

focus-v: ergative

Is it your understanding that because Dover is a standard - based district ,
the class instructionARG1
is going to
focusrel
on preparing students to achieve proficiency on those standard - based tests that we were just describingARG2
?

focused-j

and grow into a democratic country
whichARG0
is oriented and
focusedrel
on peopleARG2
.