Ingestion : chew-39.2












[8 : Somebody ----s something ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Ingestor) V () DNI (Ingestibles) AVP (Manner)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Manner) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[in] (Manner)
NP (Ingestibles) V () CNI (Ingestor)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) NP (Time)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[on] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[through] (Instrument)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[at] (Ingestibles) PP[with] (Manner)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[at] (Ingestibles) AVP (Manner) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[on] (Ingestibles) PP[along] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) PPing[by] (Means)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) PP[between] (Time)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Place) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) PP[in] (Place) NP (Time)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles) AVP (Place) PP[from] (Time)
NP (Ingestibles) V () PP[by] (Ingestor) AVP (Manner)
NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles) PP[in] (Place) PP[out] (Source)
NP (Ingestibles) V () PP[by] (Ingestor) PP[in] (Place) NP (Time)
NP (Ingestibles) V () PP[by] (Ingestor) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () PP[at,on,from] (Patient) NP (Ingestor) V () PP[at] (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[on] (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[through] (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[about] (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () INI (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () PP[upon] (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () DNI (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () PPing[on] (Ingestibles)
NP (Ingestor) V () PPing[upon] (Ingestibles)
NP (Agent) V ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Ingestor) V () NP (Ingestibles)


Examples from WordNet


The anorexic girl just picks at her food
She never eats a full meal--she just nibbles
She was sipping her tea
He slurped his soup
He pieced at the sandwich all morning



Examples from VerbNet


Cynthia nibbled.
Cynthia nibbled the carrot.
Cynthia nibbled at the carrot.



Examples from SemCor


She stood sipping and chewing and watching.
He and Irvin_Moll were sipping coffee at the breakfast bar.
Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no_more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.
It is interesting, however, that despite this strong upsurge in Southern writing, almost none of the writers has forsaken the firmly entrenched concept of the white-suited big-daddy colonel sipping a mint_julep as he silently recounts the revenue from the season 's cotton and tobacco crops; of the stereotyped Negro servants chanting hymns as they plow the fields; of these and a host of other antiquated legends that deny the South its progressive leaps of the past century.
Two men he did not recognize were sipping coffee and munching sweet_rolls.
Shayne strode out blithely, and Rourke checked his watch and sipped his drink, getting a dime ready_to make the telephone_call to the police.
Grabski slurped his way to the bottom of the soup_bowl.
Sipping their coffee, discussing the weather, the day 's shopping, Fritzie 's commitments at the network( all of which he would cancel), they avoided the radio, the TV news_show, even the front page of the Santa_Luisa_Register, resting on the kitchen bar.