Predicate: choke

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

Roleset id: choke.01 , to have or cause to have difficulty in breathing, vncls: 40.7, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of choking, agent (vnrole: 40.7-agent)
        Arg1: entity choked (vnrole: 40.7-theme)
        Arg2: thing choked on

Example: non-agentive

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

        They also chart the evolution of a city that has grown tenfold in
        the author's lifetime, from a colonial outpost of fez-wearing
        pashas to a Third World slum choking on its own refuse.

        Arg1: a Third World slum
        Rel: choking
        Arg2: on its own refuse

Example: agentive

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

        Why, he used to lay in wait for Cap; suddenly he'd leap from
        behind some statue of Marshall onto Cap's chest and grab him by
        the throat and choke him till he coughed up an additional $2
        billion or so.

        Argm-tmp: suddenly
        Arg0: he
        Argm-mod: 'd
        Rel: choke
        Arg1: him
        Argm-tmp: till he coughed up an additional $2 billion or so

Roleset id: choke.02 , to fill up completely, jam, vncls: 9.8, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of filling, agent (vnrole: 9.8-agent)
        Arg1: entity choked (vnrole: 9.8-destination)

Example: transitive

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

        This is no place for pedestrians, but at 7:30 on a recent
        morning, when construction choked traffic at the famous Four
        Corners intersection to one lane [*T*-1], a taxi passenger found it
        faster to abandon the cab and walk to her destination.

        Arg0: construction
        Rel: choked
        Arg1: traffic at the famous Four Corners intersection
        Argm-prd: to one lane
        Argm-tmp: at 7:30 on a recent morning


Predicate: choke_off

Roleset id: choke.03 , to bring to an end, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of end, agent
        Arg1: entity choked off

Example: transitive

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

        Fending off attacks on his economic policies in a House of Commons
        debate yesterday, Mr. Lawson said inflation ``remains the greatest
        threat to our economic well-being'' and promised to take
        ``whatever steps are needed'' [*] to choke it off.

        Arg0: [*]
        Rel: [ choke] [ off]
        Arg1: it


Predicate: choke_up

Roleset id: choke.04 , overcome with emotion, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: emotion
        Arg1: experiencer

Example: adjectival

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

        Asked to say a few words, he pulls out his crumpled piece of
        paper and tries to talk, but he's too choked up [0] [*T*-4] to
        get the words out.

        Arg1: he
        Argm-ext: too
        Rel: choked up