Predicate: ascend

ascend: Frames file for 'ascend' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus.

Roleset id: ascend.01 , to rise, go up, vncls: 51.1, framnet: Traversing Intentional_traversing Path_shape

ascend.01: Member of Vncls escape-51.1, meander-47.7.

Roles:

        Arg0: entity rising (vnrole: 51.1-theme, 47.7-theme)
        Arg1: location (vnrole: 51.1-location, 47.7-location)

Example: intransitive

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

        At least not when you are ascending [*T*-1] .

        Arg0: you
        Rel: ascending
        Argm-tmp: [*T*-1]

Example: both args-- motion

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        He ascended the hill, doubtless, because it was more convenient to address the multitude from an eminence than if he were on the same level with them.

        Arg0: he
        Rel: ascended
        Arg1: the hill
        Argm-adv: doubtless
        Argm-cau: because it was more convenient to address the multitude from an eminance than if he were on the same level with them

Example: figurative ascension (probably originally literal)

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        He ascended the throne in 1941 after his father, Reza Shah Pahlevi, was suspected of collaboration with the Germans.

        Arg0: He
        Rel: ascended
        Arg1: the throne
        Argm-tmp: in 1941
        Argm-tmp: after his father, Reza Shah Pahlevi, was suspected of collaboration with the Germans

Example: path shape with GOL and EXT

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

        The trail ascended 2500 feet to the Kendall Catwalk, a trail blasted out of an alpine knife ridge.

        Arg0: the trail
        Rel: ascended
        Argm-ext: 2500 feet
        Argm-gol: to the Kendall Catwalk, a trail blasted out of an alpine knife ridge

Example: path shape, both args + GOL

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        the trail ascended the Bald Hills to Elk Camp.

        Arg0: the trail
        Rel: ascended
        Arg1: the Bald Hills
        Argm-gol: to Elk Camp