Predicate: mass

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

Roleset id: mass.01 , to gather into a mass, vncls: 47.5.2, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: people gathered (vnrole: 47.5.2-Theme)

Example: intransitive

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

        As the country 's new leader , Egon Krenz , prepared [*-1] to travel to Moscow today for talks with Soviet leader Gorbachev , hundreds of thousands of East Germans massed in the streets of Leipzig , Halle and Schwerin [*-2] to call for internal freedoms and the legalization of the New Forum opposition group .

        ArgM-ADV: As the country 's new leader , Egon Krenz , prepared [*-1] to travel to Moscow today for talks with Soviet leader Gorbachev
        Arg0: hundreds of thousands of East Germans
        Rel: massed
        ArgM-LOC: in the streets of Leipzig , Halle and Schwerin
        ArgM-PNC: [*-2] to call for internal freedoms and the legalization of the New Forum opposition group