Roleset popularize.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "make popular":

Roles:

Arg0:popularizer


Arg1:thing now popular


Arg2:instrument

Examples:

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


no instrument (-)
It might be alleged that TV has done more than its share *trace* to popularize and promote non-violent civil disobedience, so the second situation hypothesized above would be simply a case of ``chickens coming home to roost.''
Arg0:	*trace* -> TV
REL:	popularize
Arg1:	non-violent civil disobedience

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


yes instrument (-)
Wells Rich first popularized the Benson & Hedges brand more than 20 years ago with ads portraying, among other things, an elevator door closing on a passenger's cigarette.
Arg0:	Wells Rich
ArgM-TMP:	first
REL:	popularized
Arg1:	the Benson & Hedges brand
ArgM-TMP:	more than 20 years ago
Arg2-with:	ads portraying, among other things, an elevator door closing on a passenger's cigarette