Predicate: knock

Roleset id: knock.01 , hit, vncls: 18.1-1 18.4-1 17.1-1, framnet: Cause_motion , Cause_harm

knock.01: Member of VNcls hit-18.1-1, bump-18.4-1, throw-17.1-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, hitter - animate only! (vnrole: 18.1-1-agent, 17.1-1-agent)
        Arg1: thing hit (vnrole: 18.1-1-patient, 18.4-1-location, 17.1-1-theme)
        Arg2: instrument, thing hit by or with (vnrole: 18.1-1-instrument, 18.4-1-theme)

Example: prepositional thing knocked

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

        John knocked on Mary's door with his head.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: knocked
        Arg1: on Mary's door
        Arg2: with his head

Roleset id: knock.04 , cut off by striking, vncls: 23.2, framnet: Cause_motion , Cause_harm

knock.04: Member of VNcls split-23.2.

Roles:

        Arg0: cutter (vnrole: 23.2-agent)
        Arg1: thing cut (vnrole: 23.2-patient1)
        Arg2: medium, source (vnrole: 23.2-patient2)
        Arg3: instrument

Example: unstated instrument

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

        [The strong dollar, which reduces the value of overseas earnings
        and revenue when they are translated into dollars,]-1 is expected
        *trace*-1 to knock 80 to 85 cents off IBM's per-share earnings for
        the full year.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: knock
        Arg1: 80 to 85 cents
        Arg2: off IBM's per-share earnings for the full year


Predicate: knock_back

Roleset id: knock.07 , ingest, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: knocker
        Arg1: drink

Example: drink alcohol

        * Knocking back drink makes the poetry flow.

        Arg0: *
        Rel: [ knocked] [ back]
        Arg1: drinks


Predicate: knock_down

Roleset id: knock.02 , knock down: hit and cause to go down, vncls: , framnet: Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale

knock.02: Maybe this last example should be a separate roleset? Hard to say.

Roles:

        Arg0: knocker
        Arg1: thing knocked and going down
        Arg2: EXT
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point
        Arg5: instrument

Example: just transitive

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

        London share prices closed sharply lower Friday in active trading
        after Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson's resignation
        slapped the market and Wall Street's rapid initial sell-off
        knocked it down.

        Arg0: Wall Street's rapid initial sell-off
        Rel: [ knocked] [ down]
        Arg1: it

Example: with numeric arguments

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

        Last Friday, [takeover traders]-1 spilled out of Hilton, *trace*-1
        knocking the stock down 21 1/2 to 85.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: [ knocking] [ down]
        Arg1: the stock
        Arg2: 21 1/2
        Arg4: to 85

Example: with instrument

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

        John knocked down Mary's door with his incessant pounding.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: [knocked] [down]
        Arg1: Mary's door
        Arg5: with his incessant pounding


Predicate: knock_out

Roleset id: knock.03 , knock out: eliminate, destroy, vncls: , framnet: Render_nonfunctional

Roles:

        Arg0: destroyer
        Arg1: thing destroyed
        Arg2: instrument of destruction

Example: passivized

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

        An increase in production at some major oil fields in the North
        Sea, which *trace*-1 had been knocked *trace*-1 out by an explosion in
        July 1988, also aided results.

        Rel: [ knocked] [ out]
        Arg1: *trace*
        Argm-rcl: which -> some major oil fields in the North Sea
        Arg0: by an explosion
        Argm-tmp: in July 1988


Predicate: knock_off

Roleset id: knock.05 , knock off: eliminate, destroy, vncls: 10.5, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: The Eliminator, agent (vnrole: 10.5-agent)
        Arg1: thing eliminated (vnrole: 10.5-theme)

Example: knock your block off

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

        Can Sihanouk and Hun Sen knock off the Khmer Rouge still supported
        by China?

        Argm-mod: Can
        Arg0: Sihanouk and Hun Sen
        Rel: [knock] [off]
        Arg1: the Khmer Rouge still supported by China?

Roleset id: knock.06 , knock off: copy, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: copier
        Arg1: thing copied

Example: cheap knock-off

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

        Judge John E. Sprizzo issued the order in Manhattan federal court,
        where Sony has accused [the tiny company]-1 of [*]-1 illegally knocking
        off the ``My First Sony'' line.

        Arg0: [*]
        Argm-mnr: illegally
        Rel: [knocking] [off]
        Arg1: the ``My First Sony'' line


Predicate: knock_over

Roleset id: knock.08 , knock_over: rob, vncls: , framnet: -

Roles:

        Arg0: robber
        Arg1: establishment being robbed
        Arg2: the loot

Example: classic, from Brown

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

        And if you 're as flat broke as I am , I think we-1 'll have to take the added risk of *T*-1 knocking over a filling station or something before we split for one of us to set up an alibi while the other does his dirty work '' .

        Arg0: *T*-1: we
        Rel: knocking over
        Arg1: a filling station or something
        Argm-tmp: before we split for one of us to set up an alibi while the other does his dirty work

Example: all args

        person: other,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        I would have knocked over a liquor store for more quarters to play this game.

        Arg0: I
        Argm-mod: would
        Rel: knocked over
        Arg1: a liquor store
        Arg2: for more quarters to play this game


Predicate: knock_up

Roleset id: knock.09 , impregnate, vncls: , framnet: -

knock.09: Added by Julia based on instance in ULA. No appropriate VNcls.

Roles:

        Arg0: baby daddy
        Arg1: baby mama

Example: Fairly unhelpful corpus example

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

        Two of the more common examples of British-American divergence of usage are screw and *PRO* knock up .

        Arg0: *PRO*
        Rel: [knock] [up]

Example: More informative example

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Tiger Woods' porn-star ex-mistress claims the disgraced golfer knocked her up , but her stepmother is giving her story a cold shower, describing her as a "compulsive liar.

        Arg0: the disgraced golfer
        Rel: [knocked] [up]
        Arg1: her

Roleset id: knock.10 , awaken by knocking insistently on the door (British), vncls: , framnet: -

knock.10: Added by Julia based on usage in ULA-masc1. No VNcls.

Roles:

        Arg0: insistent knocker
        Arg1: entity woken up

Example: Corpus example- you can see why this is different from the other sense.

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: infinitive

        In Chapter VI of Vanity Fair , Thackeray reports on Joe Sedley 's drunken avowal to wed Becky Sharp the next morning , even if he-1 had *trace*-1 to ? knock up the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth , ? in order to have him in readiness to perform the ceremony .

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: [knock] [up]
        Arg1: the Archbishop of Canterbury
        Arg2: at Lambeth