Roleset down.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "cause to fall down":

Roles:

Arg0:causer


Arg1:faller

Examples:

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


the bigger they are.... (-)
WHEN HURRICANE Hugo careened through the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast states, it downed electric and telephone lines, shot coconuts through cottage rooftops, shattered windows and uprooted thousands of lives.
Arg0:	it
REL:	downed
Arg1:	electric and telephone lines

Roleset down.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "eat":

Roles:

Arg0:eater


Arg1:eaten

Examples:

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


growing boy (-)
In one sitting, John downed a bag of Oreos, three pints of Ben & Jerry's, a whole watermelon, half a keg of beer, and a pound of jellybeans, but he passed on the "wafer-thin mints".
Argm-TMP:	In one sitting
Arg0:	John
REL:	downed
Arg1:	a bag of Oreos, three pints of Ben & Jerry's, a whole watermelon, half a keg of beer, and a pound of jellybeans