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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="feed">
<note>
  Frames file for 'feed' based on sentences in wsj.  Verbnet entry
  give-13.1-2.  
</note>

<roleset id="feed.01" name="cause to eat" vncls="13.1-2">
<roles>
  <role descr="causal agent" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="13.1-2" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="food" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="13.1-2" vntheta="Theme"/></role>
  <role descr="eater" n="2">
        <vnrole vncls="13.1-2" vntheta="Recipient"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="double object">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
<text>
    Under the stars and moons of the renovated Indiana Roof ballroom,
    nine of the hottest chefs in town fed them Indiana duckling
    mousseline, lobster consomme, veal mignon and chocolate terrine
    with a raspberry sauce. 
</text>
        <arg f="LOC" n="M">Under the stars and moons of the renovated
        Indiana Roof ballroom</arg> 
        <arg n="0">nine of the hottest chefs in town</arg>
        <rel>fed</rel>
        <arg n="2">them</arg>
        <arg n="1">Indiana duckling mousseline, lobster consomme, veal
        mignon and chocolate terrine with a raspberry sauce</arg> 
</example>

<example name="agentive transitive takes arg2">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="infinitive" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="ns"/>
<text>
    Bailiffs claimed they were required *trace* to chauffeur him to
    and from work, mow his lawn, chop his wood, fix his car and even
    drop by his house *trace* to feed his two grown mutts, Dixie and
    Husky. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace* -&gt; *trace* -&gt;  they</arg>
        <rel>feed</rel>
        <arg n="2">his two grown mutts , Dixie and Husky</arg>
</example>

<example name="passivization of food">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="present" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    The transluscent husk of the seed is removed, sifted and crushed;
    the seed itself is fed *trace* to animals. 
</text>
        <rel>fed</rel>
        <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt;  the seed itself</arg>
        <arg f="to" n="2">animals</arg>
</example>

<example name="passivization of eater">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="past" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    Today's most widely used data-storing chips have ``volatile''
    memories -- their data disappear if they aren't fed a steady diet
    of electricity, so they need external power supplies. 
</text>
        <arg n="2">they</arg>
        <arg f="NEG" n="M">n't</arg>
        <rel>fed</rel>
        <arg n="1">a steady diet of electricity</arg>
<note>
This is missing the trace.
</note>
</example>

<example name="arg2 subject, prepositional">
<inflection aspect="progressive" form="participle" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="active"/>
<text>
    In the early 1970s, when the ``world food crisis'' was a major
    worry, Phillips Petroleum Co., like several other big companies,
    began developing ``single-cell protein,'' edible protein made by
    microbes feeding on non-edible materials. 
</text>
        <arg n="2">microbes</arg>
        <rel>feeding</rel>
        <arg f="on" n="1">non-edible materials</arg>
</example>

<example name="arg1 subject, transitive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="infinitive" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="ns"/>
<text>
    Walt Disney Co.'s Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., stocks rescue
    equipment, medical supplies, and enough food and water *trace*
    *trace* to feed at least 10,000 visitors for as long as five days
    in the event that a calamity isolates the theme park. 
</text>
        <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt; *trace* -&gt;  enough food and water</arg>
        <rel>feed</rel>
        <arg n="2">at least 10,000 visitors</arg>
        <arg f="TMP" n="M">for as long as five days</arg>
        <arg f="LOC" n="M">in the event that a calamity isolates the
        theme park</arg> 
</example>

<example name="metaphorical feeding?">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="third" tense="present" voice="active"/>
<text>
    Lotus Development Corp. feeds its evaluations into a computer, but
    only for storage; the decisions are made by supervisors. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">Lotus Development Corp.</arg>
        <rel>feeds</rel>
        <arg n="1">its evaluations</arg>
        <arg f="into" n="2">a computer</arg>
</example>

<note>
Who'd'a thunk one verb could take every possible arrangement of three args?
</note>

</roleset>


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="feed_up">


</predicate>
</frameset>
