Predicate: commodify

commodify: Frames file for 'commodify' based on survey of sentences in ectb2. Comparison with 'commercialize.' No VerbNet entry.

Roleset id: commodify.01 , to make into a commodity, commercialize, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer, agent
        Arg1: thing commodified
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg 0

Example: transitive

        In his book The Art of Life, the humorist Lin Yutang noted how-1 commercial
        advertising has commodified virtually every inch of a woman's body, right
        down to the last line and the last painted toenail *-1.

        Arg0: commercial advertising
        Rel: commodified
        Arg1: virtually every inch of a woman's body, right down to the last line and the last painted toenail
        ArgM-MNR: *-1->how

Example: with instrument

        Capitalism commodifies everything with glitzy advertising and tacky slogans.

        Arg0: Capitalism
        Rel: commodifies
        Arg1: everything
        Arg2: with glitzy advertising and tacky slogans