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

Roles:

Arg0:agent, hitter - animate only!


Arg1:thing hit


Arg2:instrument, thing hit by or with

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: progressive voice: passive form: participle


passive (-)
``The stocks that have been the best are having big pullbacks, and the ones that have been the worst are getting clobbered *trace*,'' Mr. Mills said.
REL:	clobbered
Arg1:	*trace* -> the ones that have been the worst

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


active? (-)
Mary clobbered John with a frozen trout.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	clobbered
Arg1:	John
Arg2-with:	a frozen trout

The low frequency in the active (if indeed it occurs at all) suggests that this is on the way to becoming an adjective. Oh well.