Predicate: shower

shower: Frames file for 'shower' based on sentences in wsj.

Roleset id: shower.01 , fall, sprinkle, rain, vncls: 9.7 17.2 41.1.1 57, framnet: Precipitation , Placing , Filling , Grooming , Mass_motion

shower.01: Member of Vncls spray-9.7-1, pelt-17.2, dress-41.1.1, weather-57. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of things falling (vnrole: 17.2-agent, 9.7-agent, 41.1.1-agent)
        Arg1: things falling (vnrole: 17.2-theme, 9.7-theme, 41.1.1-patient, 57-theme)
        Arg2: falling on what (vnrole: 17.2-destination, 9.7-destination)

Example: all args

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

        Endless seconds wondering if those huge windows would buckle and
        shower us with glass.

        Arg0: those huge windows
        Argm-mod: would
        Rel: shower
        Arg1: us
        Arg2: with glass

Example: personal hygiene

        Effectively, "John showers (himself) (with water)."
        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        John faithfully showers once a month.

        Arg0: John
        Argm-mnr: faithfully
        Rel: showers
        Argm-tmp: once a month

Example: weather with arg0

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        After years of drought, the clouds showered heavy rain

        Argm-tmp: After years of drought
        Arg0: the clouds
        Rel: showered
        Arg1: heavy rain

Example: weather with empty 'it'

        Don't tag empty 'it'!
        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Well, it "showered" on us all the way from Knoxville to Elizabethton.

        Argm-dis: Well
        Rel: showered
        Arg2: on us
        Argm-loc: all the way from Knoxville to Elizabethton