Predicate: popularize
popularize: Frames file for 'popularize' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet
entry other_cos 45.4.
Roleset id: popularize.01 , make popular, vncls: 45.4, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: popularizer (vnrole: 45.4-agent)
Arg1: thing now popular (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
Arg2: instrument (vnrole: 45.4-instrument)
Example: no instrument
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive
It might be alleged that TV-1 has done more than its share *trace*-1
to popularize and promote non-violent civil disobedience, so the
second situation hypothesized above would be simply a case of
``chickens coming home to roost.''
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: popularize
Arg1: non-violent civil disobedience
Example: yes instrument
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Wells Rich first popularized the Benson & Hedges brand more
than 20 years ago with ads portraying, among other things, an
elevator door closing on a passenger's cigarette.
Arg0: Wells Rich
Argm-tmp: first
Rel: popularized
Arg1: the Benson & Hedges brand
Argm-tmp: more than 20 years ago
Arg2: with ads portraying, among other things, an elevator door closing on a passenger's cigarette