Guidelines for Propbank framers

Frame files provide guidelines for Propbank annotators and include a list of framesets, or coarse-grained senses of the verbs. A frameset stands for a set of syntactic frames. Following Levin 1993, we assume that the set of syntactic constructions or frames that a verb can occur in is a direct reflection of the underlying semantic components that restrict allowable arguments. A frameset thus corresponds to a coarse-grained sense of the verb, which has a specific set of semantic arguments.