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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="buzz">
<note>
  Frames file for 'buzz' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
  corpus.
</note>

<roleset id="buzz.01" name="to make a buzzing  sound " vncls="38 43.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="entity buzzing" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="43.2" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="38" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="thing buzzing about" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="43.2" vntheta="Theme"/>
        <vnrole vncls="38" vntheta="Theme"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="intransitive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="active"/>
<text>
 For those hoping [*] to see a modicum of political normalcy restored -- in view of Greece 's eight-year misadventure under autocratic pseudosocialism and subsequent three-month hitch with a conservative-communist coalition government -- there is but one bright sign : The scandals still encircling former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou and his fallen socialist government are like flies buzzing around a rotting carcass .
</text>
	<arg n="0">flies</arg>
	<rel>buzzing</rel>
	<arg f="LOC" n="M">around a rotting carcass</arg>
</example>


<example name="buzz about">
<inflection aspect="progressive" form="infinitive" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="active"/>
<text>
 Conference attendees are expected [*-1] to be buzzing about the workings of the recently formed Resolution Trust Corp. , a federal agency charged [*] with [*] disposing of an estimated $ 200 billion [*U*] of real estate dumped [*] in government hands by insolvent savings and loans .
</text>
	<arg n="0">[*-1] -&gt;  Conference attendees</arg>
	<rel>buzzing</rel>
	<arg f="about" n="1">the workings of the recently formed Resolution Trust Corp. , a federal agency charged [*] with [*] disposing of an estimated $ 200 billion [*U*] of real estate dumped [*] in government hands by insolvent savings and loans</arg>
</example>


</roleset>




</predicate>

<predicate lemma="buzz_off">
<roleset id="buzz.03" name="buzz off: to go away" vncls="38 43.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="entity leaving" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="43.2" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="38" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
</roles>


<example name="intransitive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="present" voice="active"/>
<text>
 Even if a grower beats them back , his $ 2,000 [*U*] rented bees might buzz off to the neighbors ' orchards instead of pollinating his , Mr. Broderick says [0] [*T*-1] .
</text>
	<arg n="0">his $ 2,000 [*U*] rented bees</arg>
	<arg f="MOD" n="M">might</arg>
	<rel>[ buzz] [ off]</rel>
	<arg f="DIR" n="M">to the neighbors ' orchards</arg>
</example>



</roleset>
</predicate>


</frameset>
