Predicate: stab
stab: Frames file for 'stab' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries
42.2 and 18.2, Framenet entry Cause_harm.
Roleset id: stab.01 , poke with sharp object, perhaps fatally, vncls: 42.2 18.2, framnet:
stab.01: Note that the result and the location cannot cooccur: "John was
stabbed to death in the back". This is clearly not a syntactic
valency problem, since this has no more phrases than the last
example.
Roles:
Arg0: stabber (vnrole: 18.2-Agent, 42.2-Agent)
Arg1: thing stabbed (vnrole: 18.2-Patient, 42.2-Patient)
Arg2: sharp object (vnrole: 18.2-Instrument)
Arg3: specific location of wound or end result of stabbing
Example: passive transitived
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Prior to his term, [a teacher]-1 bled to death in the halls, *trace*-1
stabbed *trace*-1 by a student.
Rel: stabbed
Arg1: *trace*
Arg0: by a student
Example: arg3 as location
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
When he initially refused, he says, they stabbed him in the back
and made off with $2,000 and 280 blank tickets.
Arg0: they
Rel: stabbed
Arg1: him
Arg3: in the back
Example: arg3 as result
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
*trace* Beheading small children, stabbing elderly people to
death, raping and shooting women, and burying people alive are
just a few of the grisly activities that the Somali armed forces
have been engaged in over the past two years.
Arg0:
Rel: stabbing
Arg1: elderly people
Arg3: to death
Example: args 1 2 3
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
Guns were never used: [Each man]-1 was stabbed *trace*-1 to death with a
large knife.
Rel: stabbed
Arg1: *trace*
Arg3: to death
Arg2: with a large knife