Frameset - grok-v

Predicate: grok

grok: Frames file for 'grok' based on sentences in brown. Verbnet entry

Roleset id: grok.01 , the great indefinable, vncls: , framnet:

grok.01: This word was invented by Robert Heinlein in 'Stranger in a Strange Land' to denote an experience alien to the human condition. As such, it is largely undefined--indeed, most of the story is devoted to a human learning what 'grokking' is all about. In later usage, 'grok' has been shifted to mean 'to understand (fully)' which, while taking the same argument structure (except not the intransitive), loses much of the magic of the original.

Roles:

Arg0: grokker
Arg1: grokked

Example: transitive, NP

        person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive

        Mike-1 remained in trance; there was much *trace-0* *trace-1* to
        grok *trace-2*

        Arg0: *trace-1*
        Rel: grok
        Arg1: *trace-2*
        ArgM-RCL: *trace-0* -> much

Example: transitive, SBar

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

        Mike grokked this was true, but grokked that there was more to it.

        Arg0: Mike
        Rel: grokked
        Arg1: there was more to it

Example: intransitive

        person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive

        Now that he knew himself to be self, he-1 was free *trace*-1 to grok
        ever closer to his brothers, merge without let.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: grok
        Argm-MNR: ever closer to his brothers