Roleset crawl.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to advance slowly":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, entity crawling


Arg1:direction

Examples:

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


with direction (-)
For months the Johns Hopkins researchers , [*-1] using gene probes , experimentally crawled down the length of chromosome 17 , [*-1] looking for the smallest common bit of genetic material lost [*] in all tumor cells .
ArgM-TMP:	For months
Arg0:	the Johns Hopkins researchers
ArgM-MNR:	experimentally
REL:	crawled
Arg1-DIR:	down the length of chromosome 17
ArgM-ADV:	[*-1] looking for the smallest common bit of genetic material lost [*] in all tumor cells

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


prepositional Arg1 (-)
Colleagues today recall with some humor how meetings would crawl into the early morning hours [*T*-1] as Mr. Dinkins would march his staff out of board meetings and into his private office [*-2] to discuss , en masse , certain controversial proposals .
Arg0:	meetings
ArgM-MOD:	would
REL:	crawl
Arg1-into:	the early morning hours
ArgM-ADV:	as Mr. Dinkins would march his staff out of board meetings and into his private office [*-2] to discuss , en masse , certain controversial proposals