Roleset thieve.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "steal, be a thief":

Roles:

Arg0:thief

Examples:

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


usually adjectival (-)
There have been cooing doves, chattering magpies, thieving jackdaws, a proud peacock, a silly goose, and a harpy eagle -- whom I was silly enough to mate with and who is now busy tearing at my vitals''.
REL:	thieving
Arg0:	jackdaws

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


occasionally nominal (-)
It was responsible and sometimes dangerous work because the thieving is awful in the port of New York.
REL:	thieving