Predicate: dry

dry: Frames file for 'dry' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus and sentences from ECTB 2. Verbnet class 45.4, other members include activate, age, balance, blur, darken, hasten, laminate, magnetize, revive, ripen, sicken, stabilize, sour, tilt, unwind, whiten.

Roleset id: dry.02 , (cause to) remove moisture from something, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

dry.02: Frame added by Arrick

Roles:

        Arg0: agent or cause, dry-er (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: thing losing moisture (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)

Example: no subject

        Perhaps people fleeing the fighting found it *EXP* difficult * to lug
        sacks of rice with them, so instead they ground the rice to a pulp and
        flattened it into strips,[ which]-9 [*T*]-9 were then boiled and dried [*]-9.

        Argm-RCL: [which]-9 -> strips
        Argm-TMP: then
        Rel: dried
        Arg1: [*]-9

Example: cause, no object

        From the stripping of the ramie bark *0* *T* to get fibers, through *
        framing, sun-drying and dying, * to weaving, tailoring and embroidering,
        every step in the process of * making cloth is women's work.

        Arg0: sun
        Rel: drying

Example: both arguments

        He found that the strong wind and bright sunshine were good for * drying noodles.

        Arg0: * -> the strong wind and bright sunshine
        Rel: drying
        Arg1: noodles


Predicate: dry_up

Roleset id: dry.01 , to make or become unproductive, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: entity causing unproductivity, agent (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: entity dried up (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)

Example: intransitive

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

        He wo n't for long , because his old state sources of rye and potatoes are drying up .

        Arg1: his old state sources of rye and potatoes
        Rel: [ drying] [ up]

Example: transitive

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

        But in either case , the report says [0] [*T*-2] , China 's balance of payments would rapidly dry up foreign reserves , which [*T*-1] are used [*-3] [*] to finance the imbalance .

        Arg0: China 's balance of payments
        ArgM-MOD: would
        ArgM-MNR: rapidly
        Rel: [ dry] [ up]
        Arg1: foreign reserves , which [*T*-1] are used [*-3] [*] to finance the imbalance


Predicate: dry_out

Roleset id: dry.03 , (cause to) become less moist, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

dry.03: Frame added by Arrick

Roles:

        Arg0: agent or cause, dry-er (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: thing losing moisture (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)

Example: no subject

        and that-1 needs *-1 to dry out

        Arg1: *-1
        Rel: [dry] [out]