Predicate: balkanize

balkanize: Frames file for 'balkanize' based on instances in Webtext 2.5-2. Comparison to 'sovietize.'

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

balkanize.01: Frameset by Claire

Roles:

        Arg0: causer, agent
        Arg1: larger group/region divided, entity balkanized
        Arg2: 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