Roleset populate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "provide inhabitants for, fill with inhabitants":

Roles:

Arg0:provider


Arg1:area


Arg2:population

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


area and population (-)
With more than 15 million exercise bikes sold in the past five years, he adds, ``a lot of garages, basements and attics must be populated *trace* with them.''
ArgM-ADV:	With more than 15 million exercise bikes sold in the past five years
ArgM-MOD:	must
REL:	populated
Arg1:	*trace* -> a lot of garages, basements and attics
Arg2-with:	them

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


agent and area (-)
Las Colinas, once a huge Texas ranch, is a sprawling complex of office buildings, homes and recreational facilities that its developers have been struggling*trace* to populate *trace* in recent years.
Arg0:	*trace* -> its developers
REL:	populate
Arg1:	*trace* -> that -> a sprawling complex

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


population as subject (-)
There are moments in this ``Summerfolk'' when the characters populating the vast multilevel country house (which looks like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria Petrovich) spout philosophic bon mots with the self-conscious rat-a-tat-tat pacing of ``Laugh In.''
Arg2:	the characters
REL:	populating
Arg1:	the vast multilevel country house (which looks like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria Petrovich)

This is based on 'fill' and it is crucial to distinguish between the agent causing some area to have a population, and the population itself.