Roleset sleep.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "sleep":

Roles:

Arg0:sleeper


Arg1:cognate object


Arg2:expected terminus of sleep

Examples:

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


usually intransitive (-)
I'm not saying advertising revenue isn't important,'' she says, ``but I couldn't sleep at night'' if the magazine bowed to a company because they once took out an ad.
Arg0:	I
ArgM-MOD:	could
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	sleep
ArgM-TMP:	at night
ArgM-ADV:	if the magazine bowed to a company because they once took out an ad

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


been there, done that (-)
Some nights he slept under his desk.
ArgM-TMP:	Some nights
Arg0:	he
REL:	slept
ArgM-LOC:	under his desk

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


quite an alarm clock, eh? (-)
I'd slept through my only previous brush with natural disaster, a tornado 15 or so summers ago near Traverse City, Mich., so I was unprepared for one reaction to such things: the urge to talk about them.
Arg0:	I
ArgM-MOD:	'd
REL:	slept
Arg2-through:	my only previous brush with natural disaster, a tornado 15 or so summers ago near Traverse City, Mich.

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


with cognate object (-)
John sleeps the sleep of the damned.
Arg0:	John
REL:	sleeps
Arg1:	the sleep of the damned

Roleset sleep.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "engage in sexual relations":

Roles:

Arg0:agentive partner


Arg1:prepositional partner

Examples:

person: third tense: past aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


sleep with (-)
Mr. Noriega had learned that a local union leader was sleeping with the wife of his deputy.
Arg0:	a local union leader
REL:	sleeping
Arg1-with:	the wife of his deputy

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


sleep together (-)
John and Mary don't sleep together.
Arg0:	John and Mary
Argm-NEG:	n't
REL:	sleep
Argm-MNR:	together

Not sure about that last example. Calling 'together' an adjunct seems to miss the point, but I'm uncertain how else to handle it. Fortunately, it doesn't occur in the corpus.

Roleset sleep.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "sleep away: consume a time period while asleep":

Roles:

Arg0:sleeper


Arg1:time period

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: both voice: active form: participle


sleepy boy (-)
David Cortlandt , [*-1] having slept away a day and a night , came awake in a plank farmhouse on the Harlem River near Spuyten Duyvil .
Arg0:	[*-1] -> David Cortlandt
REL:	[ slept] [ away]
Arg1:	a day and a night

Roleset sleep.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "sleep off: get rid of via sleep":

Roles:

Arg0:one getting rid of something, corrupted entity


Arg1:impurity, corruption

Examples:

person: third tense: past aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


but what is 'it'? (-)
Ma never went near the old man when he was sleeping it off [*T*-1] .
Arg0:	he
REL:	[ sleeping] [ off]
Arg1:	it
ArgM-TMP:	[*T*-1] -> when