Predicate: totter
totter: Frames file for 'totter' based on sentences in financial subcorpus and
automatic expansion via verbnet.
Roleset id: totter.01 , stand unsteadily, vncls: 47.3 49 51.3.2, framnet: Self_motion
totter.01: Member of VNcls modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3, body_internal_motion-49, run-51.3.2.
Roles:
Arg1: thing tottering (vnrole: 47.3-theme, 49-patient, 51.3.2-theme)
Example: poor John
person: third, tense: past, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
After a round of Mary's skull-splitting cocktails, John was
tottering like a baby.
Argm-tmp: After a round of Mary's skull-splitting cocktails
Arg1: John
Rel: tottering
Argm-mnr: like a baby
Predicate: totter_around
Roleset id: totter.02 , move unsteadily, vncls: , framnet:
totter.02: Corresponds to same Vncls as totter.01.
Roles:
Arg1: thing tottering
Example: WSJ waxes eloquent
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: gerund
Inexplicably costumed as a rabbinical student, *trace*-1 tottering
around on lifts, [Mr. Shicoff]-1 hardly seemed the fellow to catch a
fancy cocotte's eye.
Rel: [ tottering] [ around]
Argm-mnr: on lifts
Arg1: *trace*-1