Frameset - defeat-v

Predicate: defeat

defeat: Frames file for 'defeat' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus.

Roleset id: defeat.01 , to win over, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: entity victorious
Arg1: entity defeated

Example: transitive

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

        Pakistan 's Bhutto defeated the first no-confidence motion in the nation 's 42-year history , [*-2] surviving the vote that [*T*-1] could have brought down her 11-month-old government .

        Arg0: Pakistan 's Bhutto
        Rel: defeated
        Arg1: the first no-confidence motion in the nation 's 42-year history
        ArgM-ADV: [*-2] surviving the vote that [*T*-1] could have brought down her 11-month-old government

Example: passive

        person: third, tense: present, aspect: perfect, voice: passive, form: participle

        The clutter of the 1940s remains , but its color has drained away , and [the will [*] to overcome]-1 has been defeated [*-1] .

        Rel: defeated
        Arg1: [*-1]

Example: transitive with adverbials

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

        He defeated the contentious Mr. Koch in the Democratic primary partly because he seemed [*-1] to offer hope [0] he could heal the city 's racial and ethnic wounds .

        Arg0: He
        Rel: defeated
        Arg1: the contentious Mr. Koch
        ArgM-LOC: in the Democratic primary
        ArgM-CAU: partly because he seemed [*-1] to offer hope [0] he could heal the city 's racial and ethnic wounds