Roleset grok.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "the great indefinable":

Roles:

Arg0:grokker


Arg1:grokked

Examples:

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


transitive, NP (-)
Mike remained in trance; there was much *trace-0* *trace-1* to grok *trace-2*
Arg0:	*trace-1* -> Mike
REL:	grok
Arg1:	*trace-2* -> *trace-0* -> much

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


transitive, SBar (-)
Mike grokked this was true, but grokked that there was more to it.
Arg0:	Mike
REL:	grokked
Arg1:	there was more to it

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


intransitive (-)
Now that he knew himself to be self, he was free *trace* to grok ever closer to his brothers, merge without let.
Arg0:	*trace* -> he
REL:	grok
Argm-MNR:	ever closer to his brothers

This word was invented by Robert Heinlein in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' to denote an experience alien to the human condition. As such, it is largely undefined--indeed, most of the story is devoted to a human learning what 'grokking' is all about. In later usage, 'grok' has been shifted to mean 'to understand (fully)' which, while taking the same argument structure (except not the intransitive), loses much of the magic of the original.