Commentary: No examples found except the noun counterpart and 'out-sop'. Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate|organization]] SOP NP2[recipient[animate|organization]] PP[theme]
Examples:
*The lobbyist sopped the congressman with gifts.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: sop.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: Often occurs adjectivally Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate]] SOP NP2[theme[liquid]] PP[destination] NP1[agent[animate]] SOP NP2[destination] (PP[theme[liquid]]) NP1[theme[liquid]] SOP NP2[destination]
Examples:
She sopped water onto the floor.
He sopped his handkerchief in the blood trickling from the damaged nose.
She sopped the floor with water.
He thought of those biscuits, each cut open and sopped in bacon grease.
The latter's white face was being sopped by Mary with the dripping sponge.
Sweat sopped his scalp and trickled down his forehead.
A harsh, heavy deluge sopped the earth.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: Cause_to_be_wet
PropBank: sop.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 4
Commentary: Often used metaphorically. Syntax includes: NP1[agent] SOP (up) NP2[theme[liquid]] (PP[source]) (PP[instrument]) NP1[agent] SOP NP2[theme[liquid]] (up) (PP[source]) (PP[instrument]) NP1[instrument] SOP (up) NP2[theme[liquid]] (PP[source]) NP1[instrument] SOP NP2[theme[liquid]] (up) (PP[source])
Examples:
The space capsule fed him, gave him water, sopped his perspiration out of its air.
Mr. Jensen righted the spilled glass and sopped the water with his napkin.
I bailed and sopped the water out of the spare tire well.
I sopped up the offending crud with a napkin.
His shirt sopped up blood like a blotter.
It was a political dog-and-pony show and the Post sopped it up like gravy on a plate.
The Federal Reserve has sopped up hundreds of billions of dollars.
Over the nine-day period, Redding sopped up 7.28 inches of rain.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: Cause_to_be_wet
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
sop_up 1
Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate]] SOP NP2[theme[concrete] PP[destination[liquid]]
Examples:
I took a sip of paga, and then sopped some bread in it, and then ate it.
She picked up a crust of the black bread from the table and sopped it in a beaker of goat's milk.
Sop some bread into the sauce.
The Priest hath sopped the bread into the wine.
Then he cut away dies of bread, sopped one in the gravy and put it in his mouth.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NP
FrameNet: Cause_to_be_wet
PropBank: sop.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3