Roleset light.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to set on fire or make lighter":

Roles:

Arg0:setter of fire, increaser of illumination, agent


Arg1:entity lit

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
The diners at my table simply lit more Gauloises and scoffed at the suggestion of [*] interrupting a perfectly good Saturday morning [*-1] to go golfing or even montgolfing ( ballooning to you ; the brothers Montgolfier , French of course , were the world 's first hot-air balloonists ) .
Arg0:	The diners at my table
ArgM-MNR:	simply
REL:	lit
Arg1:	more Gauloises

Roleset light.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "to illuminate":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of illumination or fire, agent


Arg1:entity lit

Examples:

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


intransitive = smoke a cigarette (-)
`` They are n't showing James Madison taking a puff or lighting up , '' says [*T*-1] Laurence Tribe , a professor of constitutional law at Harvard University .
Arg0:	James Madison
REL:	[ lighting] [ up]

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


transitive (-)
Oil-related properties suffered a huge decline until I divested myself of all such stocks in 1985 , at which point the industry , while [*-1] not lighting up any Christmas trees , began a slow recovery [*T*-2] .
Arg0:	[*-1] -> the industry
ArgM-NEG:	not
REL:	[ lighting] [ up]
Arg1:	any Christmas trees