Roleset pack.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "fill, load":

Roles:

Arg0:packer, agent


Arg1:beast of burden


Arg2:cargo

Examples:

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


transitive with arg1 (-)
The league's promoters hope retirees and tourists will join die-hard fans like Mr. de Castro and pack the stands to see the seniors.
Arg0:	retirees and tourists
ArgM-MOD:	will
REL:	pack
Arg1:	the stands
ArgM-PNC:	to see the seniors

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


arg1 as PP (-)
The crowning moment in the career of Joseph F. O'Kicki came as 300 local and state dignitaries packed into his elegant, marble-columned courtroom here last year for his swearing in as President Judge of Cambria County.
Arg0:	300 local and state dignitaries
REL:	packed
Arg1-into:	his elegant , marble-columned courtroom here
ArgM-TMP:	last year
ArgM-PNC:	for his swearing in as President Judge of Cambria County

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


transitive with arg2 (-)
One of the friends sweeps broken dishes and shattered glass from a countertop and starts *trace* to pack what can be salvaged from the kitchen.
Arg0:	*trace* -> One of the friends
REL:	pack
Arg2:	what can be salvaged from the kitchen

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


all args (-)
He returned home last Thursday, packed a bag with fresh clothes and reported for duty Friday in Walnut Creek.
Arg0:	He
REL:	packed
Arg1:	a bag
Arg2-with:	fresh clothes

Roleset pack.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "send":

Roles:

Arg0:sender


Arg1:sent


Arg2:sent-to

Examples:

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


odd: verb-noun idiom rendered as just verbal (-)
Then , if Myra does nothing about [*] fetching her , I 'll pack her right back to her mother -- if I have [*-1] to take her myself '' ! !
ArgM-TMP:	Then
ArgM-ADV:	if Myra does nothing about [*] fetching her
Arg0:	I
ArgM-MOD:	'll
REL:	pack
Arg1:	her
ArgM-ADV:	right
ArgM-DIR:	back
Arg2-to:	to her mother
ArgM-ADV:	if I have [*-1] to take her myself

Roleset pack.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "fill up, load":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, packer


Arg1:cargo

Examples:

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


intransitive (-)
``This was an invisible, powerful force that's almost impossible for a layman to contemplate,'' Mr. Warren says solemnly as the ghostbusting entourage packs up to leave.
Arg0:	the ghostbusting entourage
REL:	[ packs] [ up]
ArgM-PNC:	to leave

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


with cargo (-)
He was awarded [*-1] a fellowship [*] to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes , the biwa upon which he had been practicing [*T*-2] and his image of Acala , and left [*] to spend a week at home before [*] leaving the country .
Arg0:	he
REL:	[ packed] [ up]
Arg1:	his clothes , the biwa upon which he had been practicing [*T*-2] and his image of Acala

I can get a transitive with arg1 ("John packed up his bags and left") but no reading with the arg2 (*"John packed up (his bags) with smoked herring").