Predicate: lacerate

Roleset id: lacerate.01 , to tear roughly, mangle, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

lacerate.01: LACERATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'lacerate' based on Brown ULA. frame by Perryn (from lacerate.01-v predicate notes) LACERATION-N NOTES: lacerate.01 (from laceration.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
lacerate (v.)
laceration (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: causer of injury
        Arg1-PPT: injured party
        Arg2-MNR: instrument, if separate from arg0

Example: just transitive

        Why-1 *PRO* lacerate the congregation *T*-1?

        Rel: lacerate
        Arg1: the congregation
        Argm-prp: *T*-1

Example: Arg1

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

        Emergency thoracotomy revealed a large amount of blood and clot in the pericardial space and rapid hemorrhage from a laceration of the right ventricular free wall that was repaired with sutures.

        Rel: laceration
        Arg1: of the right ventricular free wall

Example: metaphorical

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

        But not even the most spiritually evocative phrase is above parody: Mark Twain, in his laceration of James Fenimore Cooper's obfuscatory prose a century ago, whote about his target: "He saw nearly all things as through a glass eye, darkly."

        Arg0: his
        Rel: laceration
        Arg1: of James Fenimore Cooper's obfuscatory prose