Predicate: ransack

ransack: Frames file for 'ransack' based on sentences in BROWN corpus. Comparison to 'search'. Entry in VN class investigate-35.4.

Roleset id: ransack.01 , search thoroughly, vncls: 35.4, framnet:

ransack.01: Framed by Neville.

Roles:

        Arg0: searcher, agent (vnrole: 35.4-Agent)
        Arg1: searched for, theme (vnrole: 35.4-Theme)
        Arg2: location (vnrole: 35.4-Location)

Example: transitive, arg0 and arg2

        [*-2] Hastening to the attic , the temperature of which [*T*-1] was easily
        hotter than the Gold Coast , you-2 proceeded [*-2] to mask the windows with a
        fancy wool coverlet , some khaki pants , and the like , and to ransack the
        innumerable boxes and barrels stored [*] there .

        Rel: ransack
        Arg2: the innumerable boxes and barrels stored [*] there
        Arg0: [*-2]