Roleset crush.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "press, break":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, causer


Arg1:thing crushed


Arg2:instrument


Arg3:crushed from or upon

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
That promise sounds shaky now that those same leaders have fallen back on Marxist dogma and brute force [*-1] to crush their nation 's democracy movement .
Arg0:	[*-1] -> those same leaders
REL:	crush
Arg1:	their nation 's democracy movement

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


with adverbials (-)
Dissidents in Czechoslovakia said [0] the nation 's pro-democracy movement was growing despite the government 's move [*] to crush a protest [*ICH*-1] Saturday in Prague 's Wenceslas Square .
Arg0:	[*] -> the government 's
REL:	crush
Arg1:	a protest [*ICH*-1]
ArgM-TMP:	Saturday
ArgM-LOC:	in Prague 's Wenceslas Square

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


inanimate subject (-)
A UAL statement after the market closed Monday indicated that the airline 's board wanted [*-1] to keep the company independent , [*-2] effectively crushing hopes of an immediate buy-out .
Arg0:	[*-2] -> A UAL statement
ArgM-MNR:	effectively
REL:	crushing
Arg1:	hopes of an immediate buy-out

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


passive (-)
Hungary declared itself a democracy and for the first time openly commemorated the anniversary of the 1956 anti-Stalinist uprising that [*T*-2] was crushed [*-1] by the Soviet Union .
REL:	crushed
Arg1:	[*-1] -> [*T*-2] -> that -> the 1956 anti-Stalinist uprising
Arg0-by:	the Soviet Union

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: ns


with Arg3 (-)
Result : a landscape littered [*] with lemons , huge debt burdens crushing down upon the arch and spans of corporate America .
Arg1:	huge debt burdens
REL:	crushing
ArgM-DIR:	down
Arg3-upon:	the arch and spans of corporate America

frames created by Olga