Predicate: crack
crack: Frames file for 'crack' based on sentences in financial subcorpus and
automatic expansion via verbnet.
Roleset id: crack.01 , make a cracking noise, vncls: 43.2, framnet:
crack.01: There should be an ergative reading, but I can't get it. "Thunder cracked"?
Roles:
Arg0: shaker (vnrole: 43.2-agent)
Arg1: thing shaking (vnrole: 43.2-theme)
Example: ouch
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John cracked his knuckles.
Arg0: John
Rel: cracked
Arg1: his knuckles
Example: jokes also crack
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
The newspaper boys cracked jokes and again Barco 's pride was aroused [*-1] .
Arg0: The newspaper boys
Rel: cracked
Arg1: jokes
Roleset id: crack.02 , break, but not into pieces, vncls: 45.1, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: breaker (vnrole: 45.1-agent)
Arg1: thing broken (vnrole: 45.1-patient)
Arg2: instrument (vnrole: 45.1-instrument)
Example: transitive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
But new-product development will make Japanese companies stronger,
and big investments in ``domestic'' industries such as beer will
make it even tougher for foreign competitors to crack the Japanese
market.
Arg0: foreign competitors
Rel: crack
Arg1: the Japanese market
Example: now that's ugly
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John cracked the mirror with his ugliest face.
Arg0: John
Rel: cracked
Arg1: the mirror
Arg2: with his ugliest face
Roleset id: crack.05 , hit, vncls: 45.1, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: hitter (vnrole: 45.1-agent)
Arg1: hit (vnrole: 45.1-patient)
Arg2: instrument of hitting (vnrole: 45.1-instrument)
Arg3: location, usually with 'across'
Example: all args
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer , after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for [*] letting a snake loose in the schoolroom .
Arg0: Miss Snow
Rel: crack
Arg1: Joel
Arg3: across the face
Arg2: with a ruler
Argm-cau: for [*] letting a snake loose in the schoolroom
Predicate: crack_up
Roleset id: crack.03 , crack up: cause hilarity, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: joker
Arg1: laugher
Arg2: joke
Example: all args
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John cracked Mary up with his Elvis impersonation.
Arg0: John
Rel: cracked up
Arg1: Mary
Arg2: with his Elvis impersonation
Example: just laugher
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Mary cracked up when she saw John's Elvis impersonation.
Arg1: Mary
Rel: [cracked] [up]
Argm-tmp: when she saw John's Elvis impersonation
Roleset id: crack.04 , crack up: go crazy, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg1: lunatic
Example: automatically generated
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive
One beatnik got the woman [0] he was living with [*T*-1] so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex-2 that she was beginning [*-2] to crack up .
Arg1: [*-2]
Rel: [ crack] [ up]
Predicate: crack_down
Roleset id: crack.06 , punish something more harshly, suppress, vncls: 18.4, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: punisher, enforcer (vnrole: 18.4-agent)
Arg1: entity being suppressed, punished (vnrole: 18.4-patient)
Example: All Args
*T* Cracking down on crime and stamping out "black gold" politics remains a
central plank of the new government's platform.
Arg0: *T*->new government
Rel: [ cracking][ down]
Arg1: on crime