Predicate: crush

Roleset id: crush.01 , press, break, vncls: 21.2-1 45.1 31.1 42.3, framnet: Cause_harm , Reshaping , Grinding

crush.01: Frames created by Olga based on WSJ. Comparison with 'chip'. Member of VNcls carve-21.2-1, break-45.1, amuse-31.1, subjugate-42.3. Updated by Julia, 12/2010.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, causer (vnrole: 45.1-agent, 21.2-1-agent, 31.1-cause, 42.3-agent)
        Arg1: thing crushed (vnrole: 45.1-patient, 21.2-1-patient, 31.1-experiencer, 42.3-patient)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0 (vnrole: 45.1-instrument, 21.2-1-instrument, 42.3-instrument)
        Arg3: crushed from or upon

Example: transitive

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

        That promise sounds shaky now that [those same leaders]-1 have fallen back on Marxist dogma and brute force [*-1] to crush their nation 's democracy movement .

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: crush
        Arg1: their nation 's democracy movement

Example: with adverbials

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

        Dissidents in Czechoslovakia said [0] the nation 's pro-democracy movement was growing despite [the government]-1 's move [*]-1 to crush a protest [*ICH*-2] Saturday [in Prague 's Wenceslas Square]-2 .

        Arg0: [*]-1
        Rel: crush
        Arg1: a protest [*ICH*-2]
        Argm-tmp: Saturday

Example: inanimate subject

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: gerund

        [A UAL statement]-2 after the market closed Monday indicated that the airline 's board wanted to keep the company independent , [*-2] effectively crushing hopes of an immediate buy-out .

        Arg0: [*-2]
        Argm-mnr: effectively
        Rel: crushing
        Arg1: hopes of an immediate buy-out

Example: passive

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        Hungary declared itself a democracy and for the first time openly commemorated the anniversary of the 1956 anti-Stalinist uprising that-2 [*T*-2]-1 was crushed [*-1] by the Soviet Union .

        Rel: crushed
        Arg1: [*-1] (= [*T*-2] = that)
        Argm-slc: that -> the 1956 anti-Stalinist uprising
        Arg0: by the Soviet Union

Example: with Arg3

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

        Result : a landscape littered with lemons , huge debt burdens crushing down upon the arch and spans of corporate America .

        Arg1: huge debt burdens
        Rel: crushing
        Argm-dir: down
        Arg3: upon the arch and spans of corporate America

Example: cause as arg0 in a different construction

        person: third,  tense: future,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        Wo n't Central-1 be crushed *trace*-1 to learn that another gateway has yielded little more than a class F planet and a white dwarf system .

        Argm-mod: Wo
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: crushed
        Arg1: *trace*-1
        Arg0: to learn that another gateway has yielded little more than a class F planet and a white dwarf system