Frameset

Predicate devour:

Frames file for 'devour' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. I'd like to compare to 'eat', but that hasn't been framed yet. Oh well.

Roleset devour.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "eat ravenously":

Roles:

Arg0:eater

Arg1:thing eaten

Examples:

transitive (-)
`Yet our efforts are somehow less noble than those of an investment expert studiously devouring press clippings on each company he follows.`
Arg0:	an investment expert
ArgM-MNR:	studiously
REL:	devouring
Arg1:	press clippings on each company he follows

This is the prototypical transitive verb.