Roleset battle.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "fight (with)":

Roles:

Arg0:combatant


Arg1:fight or other combatant, if separate


Arg2:spoils

Examples:

basic transitive (-)
At Kidder, a unit of General Electric Co., and other big brokerage firms, stockbrokers battle their own firm's program traders a few floors away.
ArgM-LOC:	At Kidder, a unit of General Electric Co., and other big brokerage firms
Arg0:	stockbrokers
REL:	battle
Arg1:	their own firm 's program traders a few floors away




all args (-)
Its 6,500 workers, who *trace* had battled Tiger's management for years over givebacks, were union members until the day of the merger, when most of their unions were automatically decertified.
Arg0:	*trace* -> who -> Its 6,500 workers
REL:	battled
Arg1:	Tiger 's management
ArgM-TMP:	for years
Arg2-over:	givebacks




merged combatants (-)
That's the view of some analysts here who argue that Britain's leading maker of luxury cars still may have two U.S. auto giants battling for it.
Arg0:	two U.S. auto giants
REL:	battling
Arg2-for:	it