Roleset drink.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "ingest liquids":

Roles:

Arg0:drinker


Arg1:liquid


Arg2:source of liquid

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


basic transitive (-)
And another thing -- real Texans drink Lipton iced tea.''
Arg0:	real Texans
REL:	drink
Arg1:	Lipton iced tea

person: ns tense: present aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


intransitive (-)
He says bowling helps him shed pounds, though that effort is sometimes thwarted by the fact that ``when I'm drinking, I bowl better.''
Arg0:	I
REL:	drinking

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full
The assumption is that there's an unstated noun behind the 'too much'.

adverbial arg1 (-)
They worry about their careers, drink too much and suffer through broken marriages and desultory affairs.
Arg0:	They
REL:	drink
Arg1:	too much

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


with source (-)
Jackals roam the streets at night, and gemsbok, hardy antelope with long straight horns, wander in from the desert *trace* to drink from water sprinklers.
Arg0:	*trace* -> gemsbok, hardy antelope with long straight horns,
REL:	drink
Arg2-from:	water sprinklers

Roleset drink.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "salute":

Roles:

Arg0:drinker


Arg1:thing saluted

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


prost, prost, here's a toast (-)
I've learned the hard way that too much booze / Takes revenge the next day about nine; / No wonder I say, ``I drink to your health'' / -- It certainly isn't to mine!
Arg0:	I
REL:	drink
Arg1-to:	your health

Doggerel verse in the Wall Street Journal. I love it.

Roleset drink.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "drink up: drink completely":

Roles:

Arg0:drinker


Arg1:drink

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


bottoms up (-)
Sometimes he did n't seem to [*?*] because he hid them so well [0] he could n't find them himself or because he looked and did n't find anything and figured [0] he had n't hid one after all or had drunk it up .
Arg0:	he
REL:	[ drunk] [ up]
Arg1:	it