Roleset suffocate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "(cause to) not be able to breathe":

Roles:

Arg0:cause of not-breathing


Arg1:entity not breathing


Arg2:instrument, if cause also present as arg0

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: gerund


nominal with all args (-)
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
Arg0:	our
Argm-EXT:	almost
REL:	suffocating
Arg1-REC:	one another
Argm-PRD:	to death
Arg2-with:	with deep, moist kisses burning with love

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


verbal (-)
It crawled across her breasts, [*-1] suffocating the life in her nipples.
Arg0:	[*-1] -> It
REL:	suffocating
Arg1:	the life in her nipples