Roleset strive.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "try, attempt":

Roles:

Arg0:Agent/Entity Trying


Arg1:thing tried

Examples:

typical usage (-)
Sotheby's, the auction house founded in London 1744 and now under the umbrella of Sotheby's Holdings Inc., was hoping to stir up interest in old masters as it strove to build its U.S. business.
Arg0:	it
REL:	strove
Arg1:	to build its U.S. business

Frankly, I'm impressed the wordnet lemmatizer recognized "strove" as the past tense of "strive".