Predicate: encircle
encircle: Frames file for 'encircle' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet
entries 9.8 and 47.8, Framenet entry Adorning.
Roleset id: encircle.01 , (cause to) be around, vncls: 9.8 47.8, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: causer of encirclement (vnrole: 9.8-Agent)
Arg1: thing encircling, being around (vnrole: 47.8-Theme1, 9.8-Theme)
Arg2: thing surrounded (vnrole: 47.8-Theme2, 9.8-Destination)
Example: ergative
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
A few blocks away, at the U.S. ambassador's residence, the guards
encircling the compound also had discarded their Uzi-model arms
for the first time since early June.
Arg1: the guards
Rel: encircling
Arg2: the compound
Example: agentive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
The experiments involve *trace* encircling a thin rod of palladium
metal with a wire of platinum and plunging the two electrodes into
``heavy'' water in which the hydrogen atoms are a doubly heavy
form known as deuterium.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: encircling
Arg2: a thin rod of palladium metal
Arg1: with a wire of platinum