Predicate: descend
descend: Frames file for 'descend' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset id: descend.01 , to come down, lower oneself, or arrive, vncls: 51.1 47.7, framnet: Path_shape , Traversing , Motion_directional , Arriving
descend.01: Member of VNcls escape-51.1, meander-47.7.
Roles:
Arg0: entity descending (vnrole: 51.1-theme, 47.7-theme)
Arg1: location/goal, descend on or to (vnrole: 51.1-location, 47.7-location)
Example: with Arg1
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
District police in 1983 descended on his suburban home , which he and his large family used as both residence and factory , and demanded proof the house and equipment were his .
Arg0: District police
Argm-tmp: in 1983
Rel: descended
Arg1: on his suburban home , which he and his large family used as both residence and factory ,
Example: with source
(gasp) "but what about NOSTRATIC????!!!???"
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
That is not entirely true , for linguists know too much about language to suggest that there ever was , literally , a single language [from which]-1 all Indo-European languages descended *trace*-1.
Arg0: all Indo-European languages
Rel: descended
Argm-dir: *trace*-1
Argm-slc: [from which] -> a single language