Predicate: battle

Roleset id: battle.01 , fight (with), vncls: 36.3-2 36.4-1, framnet:

battle.01: Frames file for 'battle' based on survey of sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entries battle-36.4-1, meet-36.3-2.

Roles:

        Arg0: combatant (vnrole: 36.3-2-actor1, 36.4-1-actor1)
        Arg1: fight or other combatant, if separate (vnrole: 36.3-2-actor2, 36.4-1-actor2)
        Arg2: spoils (vnrole: 36.4-1-topic)

Example: basic transitive

        At Kidder, a unit of General Electric Co., and other big brokerage
        firms, stockbrokers battle their own firm's program traders a few
        floors away.

        Argm-loc: At Kidder, a unit of General Electric Co., and other big brokerage firms
        Arg0: stockbrokers
        Rel: battle
        Arg1: their own firm 's program traders a few floors away

Example: all args

        Its 6,500 workers, who [*T*] had battled Tiger's management for
        years over givebacks, were union members until the day of the
        merger, when most of their unions were automatically decertified.

        Argm-rcl: who -> Its 6,500 workers
        Arg0: [*T*]
        Rel: battled
        Arg1: Tiger 's management
        Argm-tmp: for years
        Arg2: over givebacks

Example: merged combatants

        That's the view of some analysts here who argue that Britain's
        leading maker of luxury cars still may have two U.S. auto giants
        battling for it.

        Arg0: two U.S. auto giants
        Rel: battling
        Arg2: for it