Predicate: skirt

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

Roleset id: skirt.01 , to surround, border, vncls: 47.8 47.7, framnet: Path_shape , Traversing

skirt.01: Member of Vncls contiguous_location-47.8, meander-47.7. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.

Roles:

        Arg1: entity surrounding (vnrole: 47.8-theme1, 47.7-theme)
        Arg2: entity surrounded (vnrole: 47.8-theme2, 47.7-location)

Example: transitive

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

        The ground along the Embarcadero, the street that-1 [*T*-1] skirts the city 's eastern boundary and piers -- dropped six inches after the quake , [*] wreaking major damage to at least one of the piers .

        Arg1: [*T*-1] (= that)
        Argm-slc: that -> the street
        Rel: skirts
        Arg2: the city 's eastern boundary and piers

Roleset id: skirt.02 , to evade, put off, vncls: , framnet: Avoiding

skirt.02: No Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg0: evader
        Arg1: entity skirted

Example: transitive

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: perfect,  voice: active,  form: participle

        But Mr. Breeden , a 39-year-old securities lawyer , has skirted some of the heftier issues facing the financial markets .

        Argm-dis: But
        Arg0: Mr. Breeden , a 39-year-old securities lawyer ,
        Rel: skirted
        Arg1: some of the heftier issues facing the financial markets