Roleset grip.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "hold tight":

Roles:

Arg0:holder


Arg1:thing held


Arg2:benefactive


Arg3:secondary attribute of thing held

Examples:

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


nice and simple (-)
Chinese leader Deng told former President Nixon that the U.S. was deeply involved in ``the turmoil and counterrevolutionary rebellion'' that *trace* gripped Beijing last spring.
Arg0:	*trace* -> that -> ``the turmoil and counterrevolutionary rebellion''
REL:	gripped
Arg1:	Beijing
ArgM-TMP:	last spring

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


heavy-NP movement, or something like that (-)
They note that when an unexpectedly sharp widening in the U.S. trade gap in August was reported earlier this month, hopes for a sustained narrowing of the trade deficit were dashed and sentiment gripped the market that the U.S. economy was losing its momentum.
Arg0:	[ sentiment ] [ that the U.S. economy was losing its momentum]
REL:	gripped
Arg1:	the market