Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate]|cause] VULGARIZE NP2[theme] NP1[cause] VULGARIZE
Examples:
Relativity Theory was vulgarized by these authors.
The free use of slang always vulgarizes.
The South Pole has been vulgarized thoroughly, as more and more people are able to travel there.
He vulgarized ritualism in the true sense of the word; he gave it to the common crowd.
Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: vulgarize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent|cause] VULGARIZE NP2[theme]
Examples:
The Press has vulgarized Love and Marriage.
The superficial diffusion of knowledge will vulgarize rather than raise the thought of a nation.
She is talked about in a way that is certain to vulgarize her name.
The formal lines of telephone poles and wires have vulgarized our beautiful roads.
Pilgrims have vulgarized the Holy Sepulchre into a Bartholomew Fair.
Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: vulgarize.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2
Commentary:
NOTE: only 1 example found. Syntax includes: NP1[agent[animate] VULGARIZE
Examples:
The drunkard tends to vulgarize.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: vulgarize.02