In order to get a clearer picture of the constructions of grozit’ and grozit’sja, we have put together a database with examples of usages of both words from the Russian National Corpus (RNC). The dataset covers the period from 1800 to 2020 and consists of 473 examples, where 250 are examples of grozit' and 223 of grozit'sja. For 1800-1849, only 23 examples are available for grozit'sja. For all other periods, which in the corpus are represented with a larger number of texts, we extracted a random sample of 50 examples for each 50-year period. All search results were exported and then merged into one spreadsheet. Doublets were manually removed. The data was later tagged for the following properties: Argument structure, type of event (persons/entities as thretener and threatenee), type of threat (verbal/gestural), and consequences (serious or not).

MS Excel, 2016