Predicate: whittle

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

Roleset id: whittle.01 , create by remove wood, vncls: 26.1, framnet:

whittle.01: Verbnet entry 26.1.

Roles:

        Arg0: builder (vnrole: 26.1-agent)
        Arg1: construction (vnrole: 26.1-product)
        Arg2: material, start state (vnrole: 26.1-material)
        Arg4: end state (vnrole: 26.1-product)

Example: extremely obscure literary reference

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

        John whittle the small bone into the shape of a different small bone.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: whittled
        Arg2: the small bone
        Arg3: into the shape of a different small bone


Predicate: whittle_down

Roleset id: whittle.02 , make smaller gradually, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: agent of making smaller
        Arg1: thing getting smaller
        Arg2: EXT
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point

Example: one example is enough

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

        The spokesman said the vote at Sochaux is expected to be followed
        by a similar move at the company's assembly plant at Mulhouse,
        where-4 [the number of strikers]-2 has been whittled [*-2] down to 80
        [*T*-4].

        Rel: [ whittled] [ down]
        Arg1: [*-2]
        Arg4: to 80
        Argm-loc: [*T*-4] (= where)
        Argm-slc: where -> Mulhouse