Predicate: pack

pack: Frames file for 'pack' based on sentences in wsj and automatic expansion via verbnet.

Roleset id: pack.01 , fill, load, vncls: 9.7-1-1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: packer, agent (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-agent)
        Arg1: beast of burden (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-destination)
        Arg2: cargo (vnrole: 9.7-1-1-theme)

Example: transitive with arg1

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

        The league's promoters hope retirees and tourists will join
        die-hard fans like Mr. de Castro and pack the stands to see the
        seniors.

        Arg0: retirees and tourists
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: pack
        Arg1: the stands
        Argm-pnc: to see the seniors

Example: arg1 as PP

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

        The crowning moment in the career of Joseph F. O'Kicki came as 300
        local and state dignitaries packed into his elegant,
        marble-columned courtroom here last year for his swearing in as
        President Judge of Cambria County.

        Arg0: 300 local and state dignitaries
        Rel: packed
        Arg1: into his elegant , marble-columned courtroom here
        Argm-tmp: last year
        Argm-pnc: for his swearing in as President Judge of Cambria County

Example: transitive with arg2

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

        [One of the friends]-1 sweeps broken dishes and shattered glass from a
        countertop and starts *trace*-1 to pack what can be salvaged from
        the kitchen.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: pack
        Arg2: what can be salvaged from the kitchen

Example: all args

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

        He returned home last Thursday, packed a bag with fresh clothes
        and reported for duty Friday in Walnut Creek.

        Arg0: He
        Rel: packed
        Arg1: a bag
        Arg2: with fresh clothes

Roleset id: pack.03 , send, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: sender
        Arg1: sent
        Arg2: sent-to

Example: odd: verb-noun idiom rendered as just verbal

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

        Then , if Myra does nothing about [*] fetching her , I 'll pack her right back to her mother -- if I have [*-1] to take her myself '' ! !

        Argm-tmp: Then
        Argm-adv: if Myra does nothing about [*] fetching her
        Arg0: I
        Argm-mod: 'll
        Rel: pack
        Arg1: her
        Argm-adv: right
        Argm-dir: back
        Arg2: to her mother
        Argm-adv: if I have [*-1] to take her myself


Predicate: pack_up

Roleset id: pack.02 , fill up, load, vncls: , framnet:

pack.02: I can get a transitive with arg1 ("John packed up his bags and left") but no reading with the arg2 (*"John packed up (his bags) with smoked herring").

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, packer
        Arg1: cargo

Example: intransitive

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

        ``This was an invisible, powerful force that's almost impossible
        for a layman to contemplate,'' Mr. Warren says solemnly as the
        ghostbusting entourage packs up to leave.

        Arg0: the ghostbusting entourage
        Rel: [ packs] [ up]
        Argm-pnc: to leave

Example: with cargo

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

        He was awarded [*-1] a fellowship [*] to continue his studies in Tokyo and he packed up his clothes , the biwa upon which he had been practicing [*T*-2] and his image of Acala , and left [*] to spend a week at home before [*] leaving the country .

        Arg0: he
        Rel: [ packed] [ up]
        Arg1: his clothes , the biwa upon which he had been practicing [*T*-2] and his image of Acala