Commentary: Includes: LAPSE INTO Syntax Is: NP1 LAPSE into NP2[predicate]
Examples:
Now he lapsed into suffering again as the dry argument was resumed.
As he could think of nothing more to say, he lapsed into silence.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 LAPSE
Examples:
Predictably, after the 1930s, the correspondence lapsed.
The correspondence lapsed for six years, and then revived after
Pound had been returned to the United States.
Mappings:
VerbNet: disappearance-48.2
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: lapse.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary: Includes: LAPSE INTO Syntax Is: NP1 LAPSE (INTO) NP2
Examples:
He annoyed me when he lapsed into jargon.
A tendency to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations
from whom we are descended.
Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into
the burlesque character.
To lapse in fullness is sorer than to lie for need.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4
Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1[agent] LAPSE NP2
Examples:
If dues are not paid by the end of March then a member is deemed to
have lapsed their membership for that year.
In addition, 429 annual members have lapsed their membership who
were pay and play users of the gym and other facilities.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5
Commentary: Syntax Is: NP1 LAPSE
Examples:
However, if the predetermined period of time has lapsed, the
controller 208 checks whether the power saving mode is set or not.
It is conceivable that sufficient time had lapsed following voiding
of the calculus through the urethra for urinary tract infection to
have resolved.
Mappings:
VerbNet: disappearance-48.2
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6