Roleset pedal.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "make a bicycle go":

Roles:

Arg0:pedaller


Arg1:bicycle


Arg2:path

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: gerund


with bicycle (-)
This place is 12 miles into the back country -- a day-long trudge for a hiker, but reached by Ms. Peterson and six others in a mere two hours of *trace* pedaling fat-tired mountain bikes.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Ms. Peterson and six others
REL:	pedaling
Arg1:	fat-tired mountain bikes

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


one kind of path (-)
When they return to their desks at 1 p.m., they have pedaled 20 miles.
ArgM-TMP:	When they return to their desks at 1 p.m.
Arg0:	they
REL:	pedaled
Arg2:	20 miles

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


another kind of path (-)
They wanted a machine that would allow them to pedal into rugged terrain then inaccessible to cycles.
Arg0:	them
REL:	pedal
Arg2-into:	rugged terrain then inaccessible to cycles

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


not a path! (-)
Bikers -- many of them ardent environmentalists -- proclaim their sport an efficient, safe, fitness-promoting way to get back to nature, while asserting a right, as taxpayers, *trace* to pedal on public lands.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Bikers -- many of them ardent environmentalists --
REL:	pedal
ArgM-LOC:	on public lands