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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="devour">
<note>
  Frames file for 'devour' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
  No access to verbnet.  I'd like to compare to 'eat', but that hasn't
  been framed yet.  Oh well.
</note>

<roleset id="devour.01" name="eat ravenously" vncls="39.4">
<roles>
  <role descr="eater" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="39.4" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

  <role descr="thing eaten" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="39.4" vntheta="Patient"/></role>

</roles>

<example name="transitive">
<text>
    Yet our efforts are somehow less noble than those of an investment
    expert studiously devouring press clippings on each company he
    follows. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">an investment expert</arg>
        <arg f="MNR" n="M">studiously</arg>
        <rel>devouring</rel>
        <arg n="1">press clippings on each company he follows</arg>
</example>

<note>
This is the prototypical transitive verb.
</note>

</roleset>
</predicate>
</frameset>
