Roleset herd.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "put into a group":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, entity causing some grouping


Arg1:theme, thing being included in some group


Arg2:group

Examples:

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


uninteresting transitive (-)
``Institutions are herding animals,'' says Peter Anderson, who heads the pension-fund management arm of IDS Financial Services Inc.
Arg0:	Institutions
REL:	herding
Arg1:	animals

I think that sentence is misparsed, too; it's not that the institutions are causing some animals to group together, but that institutions are animals that cause something else (customers? investors?) to group together.


both theme and group (-)
John herded the cats into a tight cluster.
Arg0:	John
REL:	herded
Arg1:	the cats
Arg2-into:	a tight cluster