Roleset batter.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "hit repeatedly":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, hitter - animate only!


Arg1:thing hit


Arg2:instrument, thing hit by or with


Arg3:intensifier of action

Examples:

passive--most frequent (-)
But its 17 big junk holdings at year end showed only a few bonds that *trace* have been really battered *trace*.
ArgM-MNR:	really
REL:	battered
Arg1:	*trace* -> *trace* -> that -> only a few bonds




passive, with instrument (-)
Microsoft, *trace* battered *trace* by profit taking in recent sessions, sank as much as 4; but it finished at 80 7/8, down 2 1/4 on volume of one million shares.
REL:	battered
Arg1:	*trace* -> *trace* -> Microsoft
Arg2-by:	profit taking in recent sessions




instrumental subject (-)
The early move essentially established the day's trading range, and traders said they saw little of the program activity that *trace* has battered the market recently.
Arg2:	*trace* -> that -> the program activity
REL:	battered
Arg1:	the market
ArgM-TMP:	recently

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with intensifier (-)
For fifty years his guns and ham-like fists shot holes through [*RNR*-1] and battered the daylights out of [*RNR*-1] the enemies of law and order in the frontier towns of the West .
ArgM-TMP:	For fifty years
Arg2:	his guns and ham-like fists
REL:	battered
Arg3:	the daylights
Arg1:	[ out of [*RNR*-1]] [ the enemies of law and order]
ArgM-LOC:	in the frontier towns of the West

I'm really not sure if we'll see animate subjects: Mary battered John? John battered on the door? Maybe.