Roleset whack.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "hit":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, hitter - animate only!


Arg1:thing hit


Arg2:instrument, thing hit by or with

Examples:

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


instrumental subject (-)
Some lousy earnings reports whacked the stock market, but bond prices fell only slightly and the dollar rose a little against most major currencies.
Arg2:	Some lousy earnings reports
REL:	whacked
Arg1:	the stock market




agentive (-)
John whacked the fence with a stick.
Arg0:	John
REL:	whacked
Arg1:	the fence
Arg2-with:	a stick

Roleset whack.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "remove":

Roles:

Arg0:entity removing


Arg1:thing being removed


Arg2:removed from

Examples:

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


no source (-)
``It's madness -- that in an hour you can whack off so much value,'' says Stanford Calderwood, chairman of Trinity Investment Management Corp., Boston.
ArgM-TMP:	in an hour
Arg0:	you
ArgM-MOD:	can
REL:	[ whack] [ off]
Arg1:	so much value




arg2 as source (-)
It includes *trace* whacking $242 million in good will off of the books...
Arg0:
REL:	whacking off
Arg1:	$242 million in good will
Arg2-of:	the books

There's another sense for "whack off", but I'm not going there.