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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="crowd">
<note>
  Frames file for 'crowd' based on sentences in wsj.  Verbnet entry
  9.7-2, Framenet entries Filling and Self-motion.
</note>

<roleset id="crowd.01" name="fill to capacity" vncls="9.7-2">
<roles>
  <role descr="agent, causer" n="0"><vnrole vncls="9.7-2" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="container" n="1"><vnrole vncls="9.7-2" vntheta="Destination"/></role>
  <role descr="substance" n="2"><vnrole vncls="9.7-2" vntheta="Theme"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="passive, prepositional arg2">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="third" tense="past" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    The school-board hearing at which she was dismissed was crowded
    *trace* with students, teachers and parents who came to testify on
    her behalf. 
</text>
        <rel>crowded</rel>
        <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt;  The school-board hearing at which she
        was dismissed  </arg> 
        <arg f="with" n="2">students, teachers and parents who came to
        testify on her behalf</arg> 
</example>

<example name="arg2 in subject position">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="present" voice="active"/><text>
    ``Personal Computer'' yearbooks are lined up on nearly every desk,
    and dog-eared copies of Nikkei Computer crowd magazine racks. 
</text>
        <arg n="2">dog-eared copies of Nikkei Computer</arg>
        <rel>crowd</rel>
        <arg n="1">magazine racks</arg>
</example>

<example name="predicative arg1">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="infinitive" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    In another compartment called the Linden Bosque, 62 linden trees
    were *trace* to be crowded *trace* together at killing intervals
    of 10 or 16 feet. 
</text>
        <rel>crowded</rel>
        <arg n="2">*trace* -&gt; *trace* -&gt;  62 linden trees</arg>
        <arg n="1">together</arg>
        <arg f="MNR" n="M">at killing intervals of 10 or 16 feet</arg>
</example>

<example name="agentive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
<text>
    Travelers crowded into subways, sat in traffic jams on major
    freeways or waited for buses in the rain, but the massive gridlock
    anticipated  by officials in the San Francisco Bay area never
    materialized. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">Travelers</arg>
        <rel>crowded</rel>
        <arg f="into" n="1">subways</arg>

<note>
There's an understood "themselves" in arg2 position for this example.
</note>
</example>

<note>
Be very careful to distinguish the agent of filling (intentional) and
the thing filling the container--although they can be merged, as in
the last example, and in these cases the lower number wins.
</note>

</roleset>


</predicate>
</frameset>
