Rolesets - want

want

want.01 - want, desire

WANT-V NOTES: Frames file for 'want' based on survey of initial sentences from big corpusand comparison to 'plan'VN updated by Julia, 10/2010. Member of Vncls appoint-29.1, want-32.1-1-1 (from want.01-v)
Passivized and Passivized with extraction are predicted, but unlikely:For the dam to be built is wanted by Czechoslovakia.The dam is wanted to be built by Czechoslovakia.(note the the latter is ambiguous--is Cz the wanter or the builder?) (from want.01-v)

Aliases:

want (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: Wanter
ARG1-PPT: thing wanted
ARG2-GOL: beneficiary
ARG3-PPT: in-exchange-for
ARG4-DIR: from

transitive

IARG0
wantrel
a flight from Ontario to ChicagoARG1

arg1 as infinitive

IARG0
actuallyARGM-ADV
wantrel
to go from Ontario to ChicagoARG1

arg1 as infinitival sentence

CzechoslovakiaARG0
stillARGM-TMP
wantsrel
the dam to be builtARG1
.

passive with extraction

he was
wantedrel
as a suspect in a double murderARG1