Frames file for 'rupture' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries
40.8.3 and 45.4.
Roleset rupture.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "break a long skinny fluid container":
Roles:
Arg0:causer of breakage
Arg1:container
Examples:
both args (-)
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
Many of the buildings, mostly condominiums and apartments, were
flattened almost instantly as the underlying soil -- much of it
landfill -- was literally turned to ooze by the quake's intensive
shaking, [*] rupturing gas lines.
Arg0:
[*]
REL:
rupturing
Arg1:
gas lines
The target of the trace is properly everything from "the underlying
soil" to "the quake's intensive shaking", but there's no constituent
in there to pick up. Bummer.
ergative (-)
person: ns
tense: past
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
Many streets and sidewalks buckled, and subterranean water mains
and service connections ruptured.