Rolesets - wait

wait

wait.01 - wait, delay movement or action

WAIT-V NOTES: Frames file for 'wait' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'remain' and 'exist' (so says verbnet). Member of Vncls exist-47.1-1. (from wait.01-v)
WAITING-N NOTES: (from waiting.01-n)

Aliases:

wait (v.)
waiting (n.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: wait-er (not waiter, that's the other sense)
ARG2-CAU: thing waited for
ARGM-TMP: period of time waited through

time period

The TreasuryARG1
mayARGM-MOD
waitrel
until Monday or TuesdayARGM-TMP
.

waiting for Godot (you saw that coming, didn't you?)

That permits
themARG1
to
waitrel
for prices to riseARG2
.

wait.02 - serve tables

WAIT-V NOTES: (from wait.02-v)
WAITING-N NOTES: (from waiting.02-n)

Aliases:

waiting (n.)
wait (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: waiter
ARG1-PPT: table

ARG0 and ARG1

" They probably thought
their old fogey of a bossARG0
had just come to
waitrel
on themARG1
! "

wait_out

wait_out.03 - wait out: endure, outlast, enduring, lasting

WAIT_OUT-V NOTES: (from wait.03-v)
WAITING_OUT-N NOTES: (from waiting.03-n)

Aliases:

waiting_out (n.)
wait_out (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: thing lasting longer
ARG1-PPT: thing lasting shorter

us. 'wait it out'

As the strike enters its 15th day today , some members are getting nervous , the spokesman conceded , but
the majority of the 55,000 MachinistsARG0
are prepared to ``
waitrel
itARG1
outrel
as long as it takesARGM-TMP
. ''