Roleset swim.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "move through water":

Roles:

Arg0:swimmer


Arg1:course

Examples:

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


metaphorical transitive (-)
Pictures of rusted oil drums swim into focus, and the female voice purrs, ``That hazardous waste on his (Mr. Courter's) property -- the neighbors are suing for consumer fraud.''
Arg0:	Pictures of rusted oil drums
REL:	swim
Arg1-into:	focus

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


commonly intransitive (-)
``People say they swim, and that may mean they've been to the beach this year,'' says Krys Spain, research specialist for the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Arg0:	they
REL:	swim

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


literal with course (-)
Not content to merely cross the English Channel, John swam across the Atlantic Ocean this summer.
Arg0:	John
REL:	swam
Arg1-across:	the Atlantic Ocean
Argm-TMP:	this summer

Similarly "John swims 10 miles every day over his lunch break."

Roleset swim.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "feel dizzy":

Roles:

Arg1:head


Arg2:cause

Examples:

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


oh, oh, the pain (-)
John's head was swimming from the amount of coffee he'd drunk that morning.
Arg1:	John's head
REL:	swimming
Arg2-from:	the amount of coffee he'd drunk that morning

Neglecting class 47.5.1-1; I don't see the usage.