Predicate: assimilate

assimilate: Frames file for 'assimilate' based on sentences in wsj.

Roleset id: assimilate.01 , become similar, vncls: 26.9 14, framnet:

assimilate.01: Member of Vncls adjust-26.9, learn-14-2-1. Assimilate to and assimilate into are actually fairly different senses, but easily distinguished by the prepositions.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of change (vnrole: 26.9-agent, 14-agent)
        Arg1: thing changing (vnrole: 26.9-patient, 14-topic)
        Arg2: target (vnrole: 26.9-destination)

Example: the one example

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

        We really do know all we need to know, if only we could assimilate
        this knowledge into our thinking.

        Arg0: we
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: assimilate
        Arg1: this knowledge
        Arg2: into our thinking

Example: the other example

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

        ''Mr. Allen objected to this analogy because [it]*-1 seems [*-1] to
        ``assimilate the status of blacks to that of animals -- as a mere
        project of charity, of humaneness.''

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: assimilate
        Arg1: the status of blacks
        Arg2: to that of animals
        Argm-prd: as a mere project of charity, of humaneness