Rolesets - clamp

clamp

clamp.01 - attach firmly

CLAMP-V NOTES: Based on fiancial subcorpus. Member of VNcls tape-22.4. (from clamp.01-v)

Aliases:

clamp (v.)
clamping (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: attacher, agent causing attachment
ARG1-PPT: first thing being clamped
ARG2-PPT: second thing, clamped to what

clamp-v: from the corpus

``
HeARG0
has
clampedrel
on their ankleARG1
like a pit bullARGM-MNR
, '' says Paul Leming , a vice president with Morgan Stanley & Co.

clamp-v: two explicit things being clamped

JohnARG0
clampedrel
his fingerARG1
to the boardARG2
.

clamp_down

clamp_down.02 - enforce more strictly

CLAMP_DOWN-V NOTES: Added by Julia.

Aliases:

clamp_down (v.)
clamping_down (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: enforcer
ARG1-PPT: crime or violation enforced
ARG2-GOL: perpetrator

clamp_down-v

T - Mobile has announced that
itARG0
's going to
seriouslyARGM-ADV
clamprel
downrel
on any users using unauthorized methods to get around its tethering capARG1
.

clamp_down-v

Driver Roger Hercules said there was much chaos in the Cheapside bus terminal and demanded that
the policeARG0
clamprel
downrel
on loiterers , some of whom he felt were drug addictsARG2
.