Roleset flourish.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "prosper, do well":

Roles:

Arg1:thing flourishing


Arg2:secondary attribute

Examples:

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


usual usage (-)
Back when the Burgess fauna were flourishing, it seems, human evolutionary hopes hung on the survival of a little worm with a backbone called Pikaia.
Arg1:	the Burgess fauna
REL:	flourishing

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


with secondary attribute (-)
John flourished as a grad student--no, really!
Arg1:	John
REL:	flourished
Arg2-as:	a grad student