Frames file for 'croak' based on sentences in wsj. No access to
Verbnet at the moment.
Roleset croak.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "die":
Roles:
Arg1:corpse
Examples:
the one example, and misparsed at that (-)
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
``If they croak stocks like that,'' he said, it presents an
opportunity that is ``the kind of thing you dream about.''
Arg1:
they
REL:
croak
ArgM:
stocks like that
I take the 'stocks like that' as an appositive coindexed with 'they',
and suggest that a better parse would be 'if they croak, stocks like
that,...' Croak just can't be a transitive verb.