Roleset mass.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to gather into a mass":

Roles:

Arg0:people gathered

Examples:

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


intransitive (-)
As the country 's new leader , Egon Krenz , prepared [*-1] to travel to Moscow today for talks with Soviet leader Gorbachev , hundreds of thousands of East Germans massed in the streets of Leipzig , Halle and Schwerin [*-2] to call for internal freedoms and the legalization of the New Forum opposition group .
ArgM-ADV:	As the country 's new leader , Egon Krenz , prepared [*-1] to travel to Moscow today for talks with Soviet leader Gorbachev
Arg0:	hundreds of thousands of East Germans
REL:	massed
ArgM-LOC:	in the streets of Leipzig , Halle and Schwerin
ArgM-PNC:	[*-2] to call for internal freedoms and the legalization of the New Forum opposition group