Halt : stop-55.4












[1 : Something ----s ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Theme) V () PP[on] (Containing_event) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Containing_event)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Depictive) AVP (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () PP[on] (Depictive) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () PP[on] (Depictive) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Duration) PP[at] (Place) AVP (Time)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Duration) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Explanation) PP[since] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Theme) V () Sub (Manner) PP[at] (Place) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Manner)
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Place) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Place)
NP (Theme) V () PP[at] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () PP[at] (Place) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Theme) V ()
NP (Theme) V () PP[in] (Depictive)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Duration)
NP (Theme) V () AVP (Manner) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Period_of_iterations)
NP (Theme) V () PP[for] (Purpose)
NP (Theme) V () VPto (Purpose)
NP (Affector) V () NP.eventuality (Eventuality) PP.subeventuality[with] (Subeventuality)
NP.eventuality (Eventuality) V ()
NP (Affector) V () S_ING (Eventuality)
NP (Affector) V () NP.eventuality (Eventuality)
NP (Subeventuality) V () NP.eventuality (Eventuality)


Examples from WordNet


She stopped in front of a store window
the car stopped



Examples from VerbNet


The storm ended.
He stopped eating the popsicle.
John cut the engine.
He ended the party with fireworks.
A wedding ended the book.



Examples from SemCor


At the slope 's base coils of concertina stretched out_of eye range like a wild tangle of children 's hoops, stopped simultaneously, weirdly poised as if awaiting the magic of the child 's touch to start them all rolling again.
Zion was surprised when Roy 's buggy stopped beside her on the pike one early summer day as she was walking home from the country school where she was teaching now that Eph_Showers had had a call to preach in some mountain town.
He stopped in_front of a door, placed a finger on his lips, and, still peering down into his beard, pushed open the door to a classroom.
Many_a motel owner- when we 've stopped there again- has remembered us and has said he preferred our dogs to most children.
On_the_way he stopped at the desk to receive his mail.
It 's got_to stop.
There being no bridge, the master had to stop at the shore; but his companion crossed the river walking on the water and beckoned to Hwang_Pah to follow him.
It struck the 9 th green on_the_fly and stopped just off the edge.
Stopping the cars at a fork in the road, he got_out, paced off a certain distance to a spot between two shrub-covered sand hills, and indicated a location.
He stopped.
She stopped at the Surcliffes' after dusk, and had a Scotch-and-soda.
Halting, Pat turned to survey him deliberately.
Mike stopped to cherish all his selves, the many threes-fulfilled on Mars, corporate and discorporate, the precious few on Earth- the unknown powers of three on Earth that would be his to merge with and cherish now that at_last long waiting he grokked and cherished himself.
`` I stopped to say goodbye, Mrs._Lattimer, and to tell you how sorry I was to hear about your baby.
With a tiny fur-piece wrapped around her shoulders, she wiggled her satin covered buttocks down the street before him and did stop.
I stopped by the counter.
Watson pounded to the crawling man and stopped, panting heavily.
Later we realized that the redcoats had stopped their charge at the wall.
It was stopping.
Then, when he had it pointed down the hill, he stopped to gaze at her through the window.
His voice had not commanded her to stop.
He was just short of arm 's reach when he stopped.
Hogan reappeared, stopped on the hotel porch, lifted a hand in signal.
He stopped automatically at the street_corners, waiting for the traffic_lights to change, unheeding of other people, his coat open and flapping.
Juanita stopped just inside the open door, her hand to her mouth.
Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus_stations and for parking_areas nearby will be needed.
In criticism of the latter 's views, his conclusions were based upon dog lung injection studies in which the vascular channels were first filled with a solution under pressure and then were injected with various sized colored particles designed to stop at the arteriolar level.
The figure stopped and one hand was perilously freed from the hamper to scratch the nose.
Kimmell said he and Ralph were helping children across Belvidere at Kercheval_Monday afternoon when a car heading north on Belvidere stopped belatedly inside the pedestrian crosswalk.
Andrei stopped at Litowski_Place and looked_around quickly at the boundary of civil buildings.
He stopped and whispered his errand.
There was brush, and stands of pine that no grass could grow under, and places so steep that cattle would stop to graze.
Phil_Rossoff, coming_in from left_field, stopped at the water_fountain for a drink.
Mark stopped the car and switched_off the lights and they sat looking_at the water, which, there being no moon out, could be distinguished from the sky only by an absence of stars.
Forced behind him momentarily, Russ followed at_once and halted two steps inside.
They cannot stop to grasp and embrace and sit in the back seat of cars along a dark lane.
Joking stopped and everyone gathered around.
The patrol was stopping.
'' I stopped``, responded the man,'' several_times to look at beautiful sceneries``.
He halted, and looked_around.
Looking down the street after her, Adam saw that she had again stopped and again removed one hand from the basket.
My heart almost stopped beating.
We drove close_to the boulder, stopped the Land_Rover, and walked over toward the family.
An auto overturned, skidding into a stopped tractor-trailer and burst into flames near Snellville, the patrol said.
He stopped stone-still.
The car drew_up alongside him and stopped.
For_example, suppose a man wearing a$ 200 watch, driving a 1959 Rolls_Royce, stops to ask a man on the sidewalk,`` What time is it''?
Now, as he passed the open counter that divided the assembly room from the business office, he nodded and said good_night to the station_keeper and his clerks, not stopping to hear the day-watch playback of his chewing_out.
On their way, they stopped at every gas_station along the main boulevards to question the attendants.
The music arrived, taking him, its rhythm stroked him, snaked all through him, the lyrics lifted him, took him from one magic isle to another, stopping briefly at each.
Mr._Dwyer said that although it was obvious that Mr._Rayburn was not well he stopped, gave the youngster his autograph, asked where he was from and expressed the hope that he would enjoy his visit to Congress.
The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty; and in that brief interval, a redcoat officer came tearing down the road, whipping his horse fit to kill.
When the station_wagon drew abreast_of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close_to the house, and stopped.
In a small grove against the river they halted, turning deep into the protection of the trees.