Predicate: balkanize

Roleset id: balkanize.01 , to divide into smaller, quarrelsome and ineffectual groups, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

balkanize.01: BALKANIZE-V NOTES: Frameset by Claire (from balkanize.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
balkanize (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: causer, agent
        Arg1-PPT: larger group/region divided, entity balkanized
        Arg2-PRD: resulting state of arg1, secondary predication on arg1

Example: Transitive

        There are efforts to expand it and generalize it in the region, or what is sometimes called *PRO* balkanizing the region, like what happened after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

        Arg0: *PRO*
        Rel: balkanizing
        Arg1: the region

Example: All args

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        We have balkanized ourselves into islands of ethnocentrism: Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Hispanic-Americans...

        Arg0: We
        Rel: balkanized
        Arg1: ourselves
        Arg2: into islands of ethnocentrism: Italian-Americans, Irish-Americans, Jewish-Americans, Hispanic-Americans...