Predicate: starve

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

Roleset id: starve.01 , to suffer or cause to suffer from deprivation or hunger, vncls: 40.7, framnet:

starve.01: Roleset member of VN class suffocate-40.7.

Roles:

        Arg0: cause of starvation (vnrole: 40.7-agent)
        Arg1: entity starving (vnrole: 40.7-theme)
        Arg2: entity starving for

Example: passive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        He could do more [*-1] to cut public subsidies and transfers , thus [*-1] making funds available for [public services]-1 starved [*]-1 of money for six years .

        Rel: starved
        Arg1: [*]
        Arg2: of money
        Argm-tmp: for six years

Example: intransitive

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

        Mr. Kaplan , author of `` [*] Surrender or Starve : The Wars Behind the Famine '' ( Westview Press , 1988 ) , lives in Lisbon .

        Arg1: [*]
        Rel: Starve

Example: with Arg2

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        `` We are starving for all the news , '' says [*T*-1] Mr. Deak , the student .

        Arg1: We
        Rel: starving
        Arg2: for all the news

Example: with agent

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

        Mary starved John, trying to reduce his weight to a svelte 98 pounds.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: starved
        Arg1: John
        Argm-pnc: trying to reduce his weight to a svelte 98 pounds