Frames file for 'silt up' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry.
Roleset silt.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "fill with silt":
Roles:
Arg0:cause of silting (but not the silt itself), agent
Arg1:container, river, harbor, etc.
Examples:
usually unaccusative (-)
person: ns
tense: past
aspect: perfect
voice: active
form: participle
But then it turned out that President Siad Barrah was not at all a
nice person and the Navy pointed out that the base he promised us
in Berbera had silted up about a hundred years ago and anyway was
1,244 miles from the mouth of the Gulf.