Predicate: crawl

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

Roleset id: crawl.01 , to advance slowly, vncls: 47.7, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, entity crawling (vnrole: 47.7-Theme)
        Arg1: direction (vnrole: 47.7-Location)

Example: with direction

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

        For months the Johns Hopkins researchers , [*-1] using gene probes , experimentally crawled down the length of chromosome 17 , [*-1] looking for the smallest common bit of genetic material lost [*] in all tumor cells .

        ArgM-TMP: For months
        Arg0: the Johns Hopkins researchers
        ArgM-MNR: experimentally
        Rel: crawled
        Arg1: down the length of chromosome 17
        ArgM-ADV: [*-1] looking for the smallest common bit of genetic material lost [*] in all tumor cells

Example: prepositional Arg1

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

        Colleagues today recall with some humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours [*T*-1] as Mr. Dinkins would march his staff out of board meetings and into his private office [*-2] to discuss , en masse , certain controversial proposals .

        Arg0: meetings
        ArgM-MOD: would
        Rel: crawl
        Arg1: into the early morning hours
        ArgM-ADV: as Mr. Dinkins would march his staff out of board meetings and into his private office [*-2] to discuss , en masse , certain controversial proposals