Frameset - light-v

Predicate: light

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

Roleset id: light.01 , to set on fire or make lighter, vncls: 45.4 26.3-1, framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: setter of fire, increaser of illumination, agent (vnrole: 45.4-agent, 26.3-1-agent)
Arg1: entity lit (vnrole: 45.4-patient, 26.3-1-product)

Example: transitive

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

        The diners at my table simply lit more Gauloises and scoffed at the suggestion of [*] interrupting a perfectly good Saturday morning [*-1] to go golfing or even montgolfing ( ballooning to you ; the brothers Montgolfier , French of course , were the world 's first hot-air balloonists ) .

        Arg0: The diners at my table
        Argm-mnr: simply
        Rel: lit
        Arg1: more Gauloises

Predicate: light_up

Roleset id: light.02 , to illuminate, vncls: , framnet:

light.02: See VN class other_cos-45.4, but verb particle construction is not present in class.

Roles:

Arg0: causer of illumination or fire, agent
Arg1: entity lit

Example: intransitive = smoke a cigarette

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

        `` They are n't showing James Madison taking a puff or lighting up , '' says [*T*-1] Laurence Tribe , a professor of constitutional law at Harvard University .

        Arg0: James Madison
        Rel: [ lighting] [ up]

Example: transitive

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

        Oil-related properties suffered a huge decline until I divested myself of all such stocks in 1985 , at which point [the industry]-1 , while [*-1] not lighting up any Christmas trees , began a slow recovery [*T*-2] .

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Argm-neg: not
        Rel: [ lighting] [ up]
        Arg1: any Christmas trees