Roleset defeat.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to win over":

Roles:

Arg0:entity victorious


Arg1:entity defeated

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
Pakistan 's Bhutto defeated the first no-confidence motion in the nation 's 42-year history , [*-2] surviving the vote that [*T*-1] could have brought down her 11-month-old government .
Arg0:	Pakistan 's Bhutto
REL:	defeated
Arg1:	the first no-confidence motion in the nation 's 42-year history
ArgM-ADV:	[*-2] surviving the vote that [*T*-1] could have brought down her 11-month-old government

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


passive (-)
The clutter of the 1940s remains , but its color has drained away , and the will [*] to overcome has been defeated [*-1] .
REL:	defeated
Arg1:	[*-1] -> the will [*] to overcome

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


transitive with adverbials (-)
He defeated the contentious Mr. Koch in the Democratic primary partly because he seemed [*-1] to offer hope [0] he could heal the city 's racial and ethnic wounds .
Arg0:	He
REL:	defeated
Arg1:	the contentious Mr. Koch
ArgM-LOC:	in the Democratic primary
ArgM-CAU:	partly because he seemed [*-1] to offer hope [0] he could heal the city 's racial and ethnic wounds