Frames file for 'avenge' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset avenge.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to take revenge for a perceived wrong":
Roles:
Arg0:avenger, agent
Arg1:a perceived wrong
Examples:
transitive (-)
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: infinitive
Gunmen in Lebanon assassinated a Saudi Arabian Embassy employee , and the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the slaying [0] [*T*-1] to avenge the beheading of 16 terrorists by Riyadh 's government in September .
Arg0:
[*T*-1] -> [0] -> the slaying
REL:
avenge
Arg1:
the beheading of 16 terrorists by Riyadh 's government in September