For example, the class of UCCIDERE ("to kill") verbs was associated with the frame of KILLING, in which "a Killer or Cause causes the death of the Victim with an Instrument".
we provide the following definition of verb class: verb classes are sets distinct senses of verbs that share common argument realization patterns (i.e., they share the same constructions) and that profile the same template of event (i.e., they evoke the same conceptual frame).