<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="smother">

<note>
Frames file for 'smother' based on sentences in financial subcorpus
and automatic generation via verbnet.
</note>

<roleset id="smother.01" name="make it hard to breathe" vncls="9.8">
<roles>
  <role descr="cause of difficult breathing" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="9.8" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="thing becoming smothered" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="9.8" vntheta="Destination"/></role>
  <role descr="instrument, if agent is also present" n="2">
	<vnrole vncls="9.8" vntheta="Theme"/></role>

</roles>

<example name="passive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="present" voice="passive"/>
<text>
    He said Jaguar ``shouldn't be smothered *trace* by anyone else,''
    recalled  one participant. 
</text>
        <arg f="MOD" n="M">should</arg>
        <arg f="NEG" n="M">n't</arg>
        <rel>smothered</rel>
        <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt;  Jaguar</arg>
        <arg f="by" n="0">anyone else</arg>
</example>

<example name="odd instrument">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="present" voice="active"/><text>
     Seeing all those millions in action, I was just so relieved that
     Ms. Gruberova, gawky thing that she is, didn't accidentally
     smother herself in a drape.
</text>
        <arg n="0">Ms. Gruberova, gawky thing that she is,</arg>
        <arg f="NEG" n="M">n't</arg>
        <arg f="MNR" n="M">accidentally</arg>
        <rel>smother</rel>
        <arg f="REC" n="1">herself</arg>
        <arg f="in" n="2">a drape</arg>
</example>
</roleset>
</predicate>
</frameset>
