Predicate: rupture

rupture: Frames file for 'rupture' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries 40.8.3 and 45.4.

Roleset id: rupture.01 , break a long skinny fluid container, vncls: 40.8.3 45.4, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of breakage (vnrole: 40.8.3-Experiencer, 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: container (vnrole: 40.8.3-Patient, 45.4-Patient)

Example: both args

        The target of the trace is properly everything from "the underlying soil" to "the quake's intensive shaking", but there's no constituent in there to pick up. Bummer.
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Many of the buildings, mostly condominiums and apartments, were
        flattened almost instantly as the underlying soil -- much of it
        landfill -- was literally turned to ooze by the quake's intensive
        shaking, [*] rupturing gas lines.

        Arg0: [*]
        Rel: rupturing
        Arg1: gas lines

Example: ergative

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

        Many streets and sidewalks buckled, and subterranean water mains
        and service connections ruptured.

        Arg1: subterranean water mains and service connections
        Rel: ruptured