Roleset gird.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "encircle":

Roles:

Arg0:entity putting something around something else


Arg1:thing encircled


Arg2:thing going around

Examples:

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


canonical usage (-)
``How can I face the world if I can't gird my loins with comic book characters?'' asked John.
Arg0:	I
Argm-MOD:	ca
Argm-NEG:	n't
REL:	gird
Arg1:	my loins
Arg2-with:	comic book characters

Also a Calvin & Hobbes reference.

Roleset gird.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "prepare, get ready for":

Roles:

Arg0:preparer


Arg1:thing made ready


Arg2:ready for

Examples:

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


unstated arg1 (-)
As rescuers pressed their efforts after finding a survivor in a collapsed freeway, the San Francisco Bay area girded for hundreds of thousands of commuters seeking to avoid routes ravaged by last Tuesday's tremor.
ArgM-TMP:	As rescuers pressed their efforts after finding a survivor in a collapsed freeway
Arg0:	the San Francisco Bay area
REL:	girded
Arg2-for:	hundreds of thousands of commuters seeking to avoid routes ravaged by last Tuesday's tremor

The arg1 above would properly be "itself". This sense is actually an extension of the other; literally 'gird' means 'to put on a belt.' Originally the belt carried one's weapons; thus to 'gird for battle' used a purpose phrase, which gradually became more prominent until the new sense took over.