Frames file for 'defect' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset defect.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to abandon a position or association":
Roles:
Arg0:double agent, defector
Arg1:entity defected from
Arg2:entity defected to
Examples:
with Arg2 (-)
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: gerund
The latter comes from the perception [*ICH*-1] , on the part of many people in network TV , that their only hope of [*] keeping viewers from [*-2] defecting to cable is [*] to fill the airwaves with an increasingly raw sensationalism .
Arg0:
[*-2] -> viewers
REL:
defecting
Arg2-to:
cable
intransitive (-)
person: ns
tense: past
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
In last week 's House vote , 41 Republicans defected .