Predicate: smother
smother: Frames file for 'smother' based on sentences in financial subcorpus
and automatic generation via verbnet.
Roleset id: smother.01 , make it hard to breathe, vncls: 9.8 42.2 42.3, framnet: Killing
smother.01: Member of VNcls fill-9.8, poison-42.2, subjugate-42.3. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.
Roles:
Arg0: cause of difficult breathing (vnrole: 9.8-agent, 42.2-agent, 42.3-agent)
Arg1: thing becoming smothered (vnrole: 9.8-destination, 42.2-patient, 42.3-patient)
Arg2: instrument, if agent is also present (vnrole: 9.8-theme, 42.2-instrument, 42.3-instrument)
Example: passive
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
He said Jaguar-1 ``shouldn't be smothered *trace*-1 by anyone else,''
recalled one participant.
Argm-mod: should
Argm-neg: n't
Rel: smothered
Arg1: *trace*-1
Arg0: by anyone else
Example: odd instrument
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Seeing all those millions in action, I was just so relieved that
Ms. Gruberova, gawky thing that she is, didn't accidentally
smother herself in a drape.
Arg0: Ms. Gruberova, gawky thing that she is,
Argm-neg: n't
Argm-mnr: accidentally
Rel: smother
Arg1-rec: herself
Arg2: in a drape
Example:
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
Mary smothered John with kindness... and a pillow.
Arg0: Mary
Rel: smothered
Arg1: John
Arg2: with kindness... and a pillow