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

Roles:

Arg0:Agent


Arg1:Theme (action or object being stopped)


Arg2:Instrument

Examples:

transitive, NP theme (-)
The ban won't stop privately-funded tissue-transplant research.
Arg0:	The ban
Argm-MOD:	wo
Argm-NEG:	n't
REL:	stop
Arg1:	privately-funded tissue-transplant research


Note the volitional agent, compare with the following example.

transitive, S theme, agentive (-)
Lorillard Inc stopped using crocidolite in its Micronite cigarette filters in 1956.
Arg0:	Lorillard
REL:	stopped
Arg1:	*trace* using crocidolite in its Micronite cigarette filters
Argm-TMP:	in 1956

person: ns tense: past aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle
Note that the droughts cannot volitionally be a source of price pressure, so they cannot be an agent.

transitive, S theme, agentless (-)
He said summer drought problems that had hit several southern agricultural regions had stopped [*-1] being a major source of price pressure in September.
Arg1:	[summer drought problems that had hit several southern agricultural regions][being a major source of price pressure]
REL:	stopped
ArgM-TMP:	in September




ergative (-)
Which flights stop in Minneapolis?
Arg1:	Which flights
REL:	stop
Argm-LOC:	in Minneapolis




made up examples with instrument (-)
Mary stopped John's incessant chattering with a deep passionate kick to the groin.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	stopped
Arg1:	John's incessant chattering
Arg3-with:	a deep passionate kick to the groin.

I really didn't think this sentence was going to end this way. Came as rather a surprise to me, to be honest.


and proving its an arg (-)
Mary's kick to the groin stopped John's incessant chattering.
Arg3:	Mary's kick to the groin
REL:	stopped
Arg1:	John's incessant chattering

Roleset stop.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "stop from":

Roles:

Arg0:preventer, stopper


Arg1:stopped agent


Arg2:stopped action

Examples:

stopped event (-)
...measures *trace-1* to stop the market *trace-2* from plunging too far too fast.
Arg0:	*trace-1* -> measures
REL:	stop
Arg1:	the market
Arg2-from:	plunging too far too fast

Roleset stop.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "visit briefly":

Roles:

Arg0:visitor


Arg1:place visited

Examples:

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


phrasal (-)
``I feel like a little kid,'' says a gleeful Alex de Castro, a car salesman, who [*T*-53] has stopped by a workout of the Suns to slip six Campaneris cards to the Great Man Himself to be autographed.
Arg0:	[*T*-53] -> who -> a car salesman
REL:	[ stopped] [ by]
Arg1:	a workout of the Suns
ArgM-PNC:	to slip six Campaneris cards to the Great Man Himself to be autographed