Roleset encircle.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "(cause to) be around":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of encirclement


Arg1:thing encircling, being around


Arg2:thing surrounded

Examples:

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


ergative (-)
A few blocks away, at the U.S. ambassador's residence, the guards encircling the compound also had discarded their Uzi-model arms for the first time since early June.
Arg1:	the guards
REL:	encircling
Arg2:	the compound

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


agentive (-)
The experiments involve *trace* encircling a thin rod of palladium metal with a wire of platinum and plunging the two electrodes into ``heavy'' water in which the hydrogen atoms are a doubly heavy form known as deuterium.
Arg0:	*trace*
REL:	encircling
Arg2:	a thin rod of palladium metal
Arg1-with:	a wire of platinum