Roleset crowd.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "fill to capacity":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, causer


Arg1:container


Arg2:substance

Examples:

person: third tense: past aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


passive, prepositional arg2 (-)
The school-board hearing at which she was dismissed was crowded *trace* with students, teachers and parents who came to testify on her behalf.
REL:	crowded
Arg1:	*trace* -> The school-board hearing at which she was dismissed
Arg2-with:	students, teachers and parents who came to testify on her behalf

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


arg2 in subject position (-)
``Personal Computer'' yearbooks are lined up on nearly every desk, and dog-eared copies of Nikkei Computer crowd magazine racks.
Arg2:	dog-eared copies of Nikkei Computer
REL:	crowd
Arg1:	magazine racks

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: infinitive


predicative arg1 (-)
In another compartment called the Linden Bosque, 62 linden trees were *trace* to be crowded *trace* together at killing intervals of 10 or 16 feet.
REL:	crowded
Arg2:	*trace* -> *trace* -> 62 linden trees
Arg1:	together
ArgM-MNR:	at killing intervals of 10 or 16 feet

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full
There's an understood "themselves" in arg2 position for this example.

agentive (-)
Travelers crowded into subways, sat in traffic jams on major freeways or waited for buses in the rain, but the massive gridlock anticipated by officials in the San Francisco Bay area never materialized.
Arg0:	Travelers
REL:	crowded
Arg1-into:	subways

Be very careful to distinguish the agent of filling (intentional) and the thing filling the container--although they can be merged, as in the last example, and in these cases the lower number wins.

Roleset crowd.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "get too close to":

Roles:

Arg0:agentive thing too close


Arg1:thing too close to

Examples:

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


gimme some space, man (-)
He no longer crowds the plate.
Arg0:	He
ArgM-TMP:	no longer
REL:	crowds
Arg1:	the plate

There might be some clever way to merge the two sets.