Rolesets - whirl

whirl

whirl.01 - move in a circle or spiral, quickly

WHIRL-V NOTES: Frames file for 'whirl' based on sentences in brown. Verbnet entries 9.6, 51.3.1 (from whirl.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

whirl (v.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: thing in motion
ARG2-LOC: axis (rare)

whirl-v: straight intransitive

TheyARG1
whirledrel
and saw him , standing there dim in the slatted light from the boarded freight wall .

whirl-v: particle as axis

HeARG1
whirledrel
aroundARG2
, suddenly hot all over , finding the man who had been standing before him a few moments back , nailing him to thespot on which he now stood , open - mouthed .

whirl-v: not an axis

A tuneARG1
began to
whirlrel
inside his headARGM-LOC
.

whirl-v: a real axis

JohnARG1
whirledrel
around the fencepostARG2
.

whirl.02 - natural disaster: tornado (usually fire)

WHIRL-N NOTES: Added by Julia in a Natural Disaster roleset endeavor. Comparison to tornado, twister. (from whirl.01-n)
The "VSP" function tags on 'death/injury toll' and 'damages/cost' correspond to the RED cause relation.

Aliases:

whirl (n.)
fire-whirl (n.)
fire_whirl (n.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: additional mention of fire, element
ARG2-EXT: rating/classification (F scale or types I-III)
ARG3-VSP: death/injury toll
ARG4-VSP: damages/cost
ARG5-MNR: wind speed
ARG6-EXT: diameter

firewhirl-n: arg1, ADJ (because of our tagging conventions for relative clauses)

Another extreme example of a fire tornado from other than a vegetation fire is the 1923 Great Kant ? earthquake in Japan which ignited a large city - sized firestorm and produced a
giganticARGM-ADJ
firewhirlrel
that killed 38,000 in fifteen minutes in the Hifukusho - Atoregion of TokyoARG3
.