please
please.01 - make happy, contented, satisfied, possibly smug
PLEASE-V NOTES: Discourse usage might also show traces in subject/object position,depending on which of the treebankers looked at that particularsentence. You may include them as targetless traces if they arepresent. This is pretty much adjectival. (from please.01-v)PLEASED-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-1, please-v.01. Corresponds to VNcls amuse-31.1. (from pleased.01-j)
PLEASING-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from pleasing.01-j)
HAVE-THE-PLEASURE NOTES: Added for THYME AMR.
Aliases:
please (v.)
pleasure (n.)
pleased (j.)
pleasing (j.)
pleasure (l.)
pleasure (n.)
pleased (j.)
pleasing (j.)
pleasure (l.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: agent, pleaser
ARG1-PPT: patient, entity pleased
ARG2-MNR: instrumental
ARG1-PPT: patient, entity pleased
ARG2-MNR: instrumental
please-v: discourse usage
Policies designed to encourage one type of investor over another are akin to placing a sign over the Big Board 's door saying : `` Buyers welcome , sellers
pleaserel
go away ! ''pleased-j: odd passive
Mr. Beall said that
heARG1
was generallyARGM-MNR
pleasedrel
with the latest numbersARG0
and cited a particularly strong showing by the company 's electronics segment .please-v: instrument or manner?
The companyARG0
alsoARGM-DIS
pleasedrel
analystsARG1
by announcing four new store openings planned for fiscal 1990 , ending next AugustARG2
.please-v: ARG0 and ARG1 and ARG2
YouARG0
pleasedrel
yourselvesARG1
with everything you wantedARG2
.pleased-j: arg1
The people who rented elaborate costumesARG1
were notARGM-NEG
pleasedrel
.pleased-j: Party pooper
Russian lawmakerARG1
' notARGM-NEG
pleasedrel
'rel
about UK royal birthARG0
.pleased-j: all args
Kerwin was sure
VandaARG1
wouldARGM-MOD
be pleasedrel
with himARG0
for serving her breakfast in bedARG2
.pleased-j: inifinitival arg0
America is probably a lost cause , but
IARG1
'm pleasedrel
to see we 're going ScandinavianARG0
.have-the-pleasure-l
IARG1
hadrel
therel
pleasurerel
of seeing Mrs. XARG0
.(p / please-01 :ARG0 (s / see-09 :ARG0 i :ARG1 (p2 / person :name (n / name :op1 "Mrs." :op2 "X"))) :ARG1 (i / i))