Predicate: encircle

Roleset id: encircle.01 , (cause to) be around, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

encircle.01: ENCIRCLE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'encircle' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries 9.8 and 47.8, Framenet entry Adorning. (from encircle.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
encircle (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: causer of encirclement (vnrole: 9.8-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: thing encircling, being around (vnrole: 47.8-theme, 9.8-theme)
        Arg2-GOL: thing surrounded (vnrole: 47.8-co-theme, 9.8-destination)

Example: ergative

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

        A few blocks away, at the U.S. ambassador's residence, the guards encircling the compound also had discarded their Uzi-model arms for the first time since early June.

        Arg1: the guards
        Rel: encircling
        Arg2: the compound

Example: agentive

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

        The experiments involve *trace* encircling a thin rod of palladium metal with a wire of platinum and plunging the two electrodes into ``heavy'' water in which the hydrogen atoms are a doubly heavy form known as deuterium.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: encircling
        Arg2: a thin rod of palladium metal
        Arg1: with a wire of platinum