industrialize-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: develop or introduce industry to an area

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 INDUSTRIALIZE NP2[location]
NOTE: Watch to tag adjectival uses as 'X'.

Examples:
Stalin industrialized the USSR.
The big concern of the Pit River Tribe is that this project would industrialize the area.
Some fear that the wind power project will industrialize their rural landscape.
What would have happened if the North had not industrialized?

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 2: change production to an industrial process

Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 INDUSTRIALIZE NP2

Examples:
SEVABM industrialized the manufacturing of TEL spinners.
Cinema technology industrialized the entertainment industry.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: industrialize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1