Predicate: clobber

clobber: Frames file for 'clobber' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 18.3, other framed members include pummel. No Framenet entry. Comparison with 'batter'.

Roleset id: clobber.01 , hit repeatedly, vncls: 18.3, framnet:

clobber.01: The low frequency in the active (if indeed it occurs at all) suggests that this is on the way to becoming an adjective. Oh well.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, hitter - animate only! (vnrole: 18.3-Agent)
        Arg1: thing hit (vnrole: 18.3-Patient)
        Arg2: instrument, thing hit by or with (vnrole: 18.3-Instrument)

Example: passive

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: progressive,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        ``The stocks that have been the best are having big pullbacks, and
        [the ones that have been the worst]-1 are getting clobbered *trace*-1,''
        Mr. Mills said.

        Rel: clobbered
        Arg1: *trace*

Example: active?

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

        Mary clobbered John with a frozen trout.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: clobbered
        Arg1: John
        Arg2: with a frozen trout