Rolesets - thin

thin

thin.01 - (cause to) become narrow or sparse

THIN-V NOTES: Frames file for 'thin' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus. Member of Vncls other_cos-45.4. (from thin.01-v)
THINNING-N NOTES: thin.01 (from thinning.01-n)

Aliases:

thinning (n.)
thin (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: cause, agent
ARG1-PPT: entity getting thin
ARG2-PPT: component parts of arg1 that aren't close together

intransitive

His hairARG1
was
thinningrel
.

thin.03 - have a low density, narrow width

THIN-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-2,3 (from thin.01-j)
THINNER-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from thinner.01-j)

Aliases:

thinner (j.)
thin (j.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: agent
ARG1-PPT: thin entity
ARG2-VSP: component parts of arg1 that aren't close together

both args

The small area we were inARG1
was
thinrel
of treesARG2
so I could see the skyARGM-ADV
.

arg1

-LRB- BTW ,
heARG1
's
veryARGM-EXT
thinrel
, but has a heart condition -RRB- .

thin_out

thin_out.02 - thin_out: to make or become sparse or sparser

THIN_OUT-V NOTES: See Vncls other_cos-45.4. (from thin.02-v)
THINNING_OUT-N NOTES: thin.02 (from thinning.02-n)

Aliases:

thinning_out (n.)
thin_out (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: cause, agent
ARG1-PPT: entity getting thin

passive

For one thing , Pentagon officials worry that the U.S. will have a much tougher time persuading Europeans to keep some short - range nuclear weapons on their soil once
Soviet armored forcesARG1
are
thinnedrel
outrel
.