Rolesets - trail

trail

trail.01 - be subsequent, temporally or spatially, or less than

TRAIL-V NOTES: Comparison to 'follow'. Member of Vncls chase-51.6. (from trail.01-v)

Aliases:

trail (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: thing following
ARG1-PPT: thing followed

be less than

Hit by higher costs and lower sales , Caterpillar Inc. said third - quarter earnings tumbled 43 % and
full - year earningsARG0
willARGM-MOD
trailrel
last year 's resultsARG1
.

ARG0 and ARG1

" The year before last
its total exportsARG0
were third on the mainland ,
trailingrel
only Shenzhen 's and Shanghai 'sARG1
, " says Jiang Suwu , a graduate of Wuhan University 's Chinese department who came south to work in the planning department of a Taiwan firm in Dongguan .

trail.03 - drag, draw, trail

TRAIL-V NOTES: No Vncls. (from trail.03-v)

Aliases:

trail (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: dragger, drawer
ARG1-PPT: trailer

redundant locative

In the very front rank ,
two menARG0
were wounded and staggered along ,
trailingrel
bloodARG1
behind themARGM-LOC
.

stationary trailing

His rock was to the right of a V - shaped inlet ,
a big , brown , lumpy rockARG0
trailingrel
seaweed whiskersARG1
.

inverted syntax

He had taken a carbine down from the wall and
itARG1
trailedrel
from his handARG0
,
the stock bumping on the wood floorARGM-ADV
.

trail_off

trail_off.02 - trail off: come to an end

TRAIL_OFF-V NOTES: No Vncls. (from trail.02-v)

Aliases:

trail_off (v.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: thing ending

a sticky end

Commodore has said it expects sales to rebound , but market researchers have said that
sales of the low - end productsARG1
mayARGM-MOD
finallyARGM-TMP
be
trailingrel
offrel
.