Predicate: populate
Roleset id: populate.01 , provide inhabitants for, fill with inhabitants, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
populate.01: POPULATE-V NOTES: This is based on 'fill' and it is crucial to distinguish between theagent causing some area to have a population, and the populationitself. (from populate.01-v) POPULATION-N NOTES: ~populate.01 (from population.01-n)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| population (n.) | | |
| populate (v.) | | |
Roles:
The rel cannot be its own argument. If the rel is your Arg2 here, it is not eventive. (from population.01-n)
Arg0-PAG: provider
Arg1-PPT: area
Arg2-COM: population
Example: area and population
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
With more than 15 million exercise bikes sold in the past five years, he adds, ``[a lot of garages, basements and attics]-1 must be populated *trace*-1 with them.''
Argm-adv: With more than 15 million exercise bikes sold in the past five years
Argm-mod: must
Rel: populated
Arg1: *trace*
Arg2: with them
Example: agent and area
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
Las Colinas, once a huge Texas ranch, is a sprawling complex of office buildings, homes and recreational facilities that [its developers]-1 have been struggling *trace*-1 to populate *trace* in recent years.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: populate
Arg1: *trace*
Argm-rcl: that -> a sprawling complex
Example: population as subject
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: gerund
There are moments in this ``Summerfolk'' when the characters populating the vast multilevel country house (which looks like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria Petrovich) spout philosophic bon mots with the self-conscious rat-a-tat-tat pacing of ``Laugh In.''
Arg2: the characters
Rel: populating
Arg1: the vast multilevel country house (which looks like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria Petrovich)
Example: Arg1, Arg2
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
The yuppies' population of the previously predominantly immigrant neighborhood angered native residents.
Arg2: The yuppies'
Rel: population
Arg1: of the previously predominantly immigrant neighborhood