Killing : suffocate-40.7












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[10 : Something ----s somebody ]



NP (Killer) V () PP[for] (Beneficiary) NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () PP[in] (Place) NP (Time) PP[on] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Victim)
VPing (Cause) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () 2nd (Cause) PP[in] (Containing_event) 2nd (Explanation) PP[after] (Time) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Victim) V () 2nd (Cause) PP[in] (Containing_event) PP[between] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Victim) V () 2nd (Cause) PP[in] (Containing_event)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Manner) INI (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () PP[in] (Period_of_iterations) PP[at] (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () PP[around] (Place) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Cause) Sub (Time)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () VPbrst (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Cause)
NP (Killer) V () 2nd (Circumstances) PP[in] (Containing_event) AVP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Swhether (Circumstances) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Containing_event) 2nd (Manner) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[in] (Containing_event) CNI (Killer) 2nd (Means)
NP (Killer) V () PP[while] (Containing_event) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[while] (Containing_event) PP[as] (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Degree) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sub (Explanation) PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[because of] (Explanation) CNI (Killer) NP (Period_of_iterations) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Victim) V () Sub (Explanation) CNI (Killer) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () 2nd (Explanation) PP[after] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[since] (Explanation) PP[in] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[as] (Explanation) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () DNI (Instrument) CNI (Killer) PP[near] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) PP[in] (Place) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[with] (Instrument) PP[before] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Instrument) AVP (Manner)
NP (Instrument) V () CNI (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Manner) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PPing[by] (Means) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner) PP[over] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner) PP[for] (Purpose)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[since] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Killer) V () PP[since] (Period_of_iterations) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Place) PP[around] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Place)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Place) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[for] (Purpose) CNI (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () VPto (Purpose) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[before] (Time)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () NP (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[after] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sfin (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Killer) NP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer)
NP (Killer) V () PP[about] (Victim)
NP (Victim) V ()
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[by] (Means)
NP (Killer) V () PP[for] (Explanation) PP[in] (Place) PP[during] (Time) PP[in] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[for] (Explanation) PP[by] (Killer) PP[on] (Time)
N (Victim) V () Sub (Explanation) CNI (Killer)
NP (Killer) V () PP[in] (Place) PP[during] (Time) PP[in] (Time) NP (Victim)
N (Victim) V () CNI (Killer)
N (Killer) V () N (Victim)
PP[after] (Killer) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () Sub (Explanation) PP[by] (Instrument) CNI (Killer)
NP (Victim) V () PPing[for] (Explanation) CNI (Killer) PP[in] (Place) AVP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner) PP[on] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[at] (Place) AVP (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[at] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Cause) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Killer) V () PPing[by] (Means) PP[after] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sub (Purpose) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Means) Sfin (Means) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () PP[to] (Result) NP (Victim)
NP (Cause) V () AVP (Frequency) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () Sub (Explanation) NP (Victim)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Manner) PP[by] (Time) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Instrument) CNI (Killer) PP[on] (Place) PP[on] (Time)
NP (Killer) V () NP (Manner) NP (Victim)
PP[of] (Killer) NP (Killer) V () NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) PP[according to] (Manner)
NP (Killer) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Victim)
NP (Victim) V () PP[by] (Killer) AVP (Means)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) AVP (Manner)
NP (Victim) V () PP[with] (Instrument) PP[by] (Killer)
NP (Victim) V () CNI (Killer) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.result[to] (Result)
NP.theme (Patient) V ()
NP (Patient) V () PP.result[to] (Result)
NP (Agent) V () NP.theme (Patient)


Examples from WordNet


Othello smothered Desdemona with a pillow
The child suffocated herself with a plastic bag that the parents had left on the floor



Examples from VerbNet


The pirates drowned the sailor.
The pirate choked the sailor to death.
The sailor drowned.
He choked/suffocated to death.



Examples from SemCor


Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my exploits, would guide her gently to the night 's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
It crawled across her breasts, suffocating the life in her nipples.
Or( more commonly, thinks Keys) the deposits themselves get so big that they choke_off the artery 's flow to_the_point that an infarct occurs: the heart_muscle is suffocated, cells supplied by the artery die, and the heart is permanently, perhaps fatally injured.