Roleset flay.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "remove skin by whipping":

Roles:

Arg0:remover of skin, agent


Arg1:thing beaten


Arg2:instrument

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


just transitive (-)
Mr. Wall's deputies complained that they hadn't been given an opportunity to respond to the criticism brought out during the Banking Committee's hearings, which Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez (D., Texas) has used as a forum *trace* to flay Mr. Wall's handling of the affair and to demand that he step aside from his job.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Committee Chairman Henry Gonzalez (D., Texas)
REL:	flay
Arg1:	Mr. Wall's handling of the affair

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


with instrument (-)
Mary flayed John with wet noodles.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	flayed
Arg1:	John
Arg2-with:	wet noodles