Predicate: pedal

Roleset id: pedal.01 , make a bicycle go, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

pedal.01: PEDAL-V NOTES: Frames file for 'pedal' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 51.4.2, Framenet entry Transportation. (from pedal.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
pedal (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: pedaller (vnrole: 51.4.2-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: bicycle (vnrole: 51.4.2-Theme)
        Arg2-LOC: path (vnrole: 51.4.2-Location)

Example: with bicycle

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

        This place is 12 miles into the back country -- a day-long trudge for a hiker, but reached by [Ms. Peterson and six others]-1 in a mere two hours of *trace*-1 pedaling fat-tired mountain bikes.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: pedaling
        Arg1: fat-tired mountain bikes

Example: one kind of path

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

        When they return to their desks at 1 p.m., they have pedaled 20 miles.

        ArgM-TMP: When they return to their desks at 1 p.m.
        Arg0: they
        Rel: pedaled
        Arg2: 20 miles

Example: another kind of path

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

        They wanted a machine that would allow them to pedal into rugged terrain then inaccessible to cycles.

        Arg0: them
        Rel: pedal
        Arg2: into rugged terrain then inaccessible to cycles

Example: not a path!

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

        [Bikers -- many of them ardent environmentalists --]-1 proclaim their sport an efficient, safe, fitness-promoting way to get back to nature, while asserting a right, as taxpayers, *trace*-1 to pedal on public lands.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: pedal
        ArgM-LOC: on public lands