Daring : risk-94












[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP (Agent) V () NP (Action)
NP (Agent) V () VPbrst (Action)
NP (Agent) V () VPto (Action)
NP (Agent) V () VPto (Action) PP[because of] (Explanation)
NP (Agent) V () VPing (Action)
NP (Agent) V () that (Eventuality) S ()
NP (Agent) V () S_ING (Theme)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Pivot)


Examples from WordNet


I will stake my good reputation for this



Examples from VerbNet


I risked my job.
I risked that I would get into trouble.
I risk smoking.



Examples from SemCor


Jeopardize it now to correct so old a wrong?
Public-spirited backers staked him to a brand-new airplane, aimed at putting their city and state on the flying map.
`` When and if it can do so without jeopardizing constitutional and statutory tax-exemption privileges essential to the maintenance of its educational program and facilities, Emory_University will consider applications of persons desiring to study or work at the University without regard_to race, color or creed, continuing university policy that all applications shall be considered on the basis of intellectual and moral standards and other criteria designed to assure the orderly and effective conduct of the university and the fulfillment of its mission as an institution of Christian higher education''.
The`` belaboring'' is of_course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious_leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.