Rolesets - engulf

engulf

engulf.01 - to flow over or absorb

ENGULF-V NOTES: Frames file for 'engulf' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus. (from engulf.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

engulf (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PPT: entity causing engulfing
ARG1-PPT: entity engulfed
ARG2-VSP: engulfed in what? actual liquid/entity surrounding arg1

transitive

A landslideARG0
engulfedrel
a hillside slum in Sao Paulo , BrazilARG1
, and at least 20 people , most of them children , were missing and feared dead .

passive

If Washington 's elites ever succeed in bursting the tax damARGM-ADV
,
AmericansARG1
willARGM-MOD
be
engulfedrel
in a red sea of new spending programs , such as federalized child careARG0
.

With arg2, substance engulfed in

In spite of
the depressing sceneARG0
engulfingrel
the Arab worldARG1
with wars and crisesARG2
...