Roleset campaign.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "work towards a goal":

Roles:

Arg0:campaigner


Arg1:cause, goal

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


positive campaign (-)
Mr. Bush has long campaigned for passage of a bill or a constitutional amendment that would explicitly give him a line-item veto, which would enable him to kill individual items in a big spending bill without having to kill the entire bill.
Arg0:	Mr. Bush
ArgM-TMP:	long
REL:	campaigned
Arg1-for:	passage of a bill or a constitutional amendment that would explicitly give him a line-item veto, which would enable him to kill individual items in a big spending bill without having to kill the entire bill

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


negative campaign (-)
The government, [*-1] campaigning against fixed brokerage commissions, promptly sued the CBOE over its minimum-fee system.
Arg0:	[*-1] -> The government
REL:	campaigning
Arg1-against:	fixed brokerage commissions