Roleset deride.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to treat or speak of with contempt":

Roles:

Arg0:treater, speaker, agent


Arg1:entity derided


Arg2:attribute of arg1

Examples:

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


passive (-)
By the end of this year , 63-year-old Chairman Silas Cathcart -- the former chairman of Illinois Tool Works who [*T*-2] was derided [*-1] as a `` tool-and-die man '' when GE brought him in [*-4] to clean up Kidder in 1987 [*T*-3] -- retires to his Lake Forest , Ill. , home , possibly [*-6] to build a shopping mall on some land [0] he owns [*T*-5] .
REL:	derided
Arg1:	[*-1] -> [*T*-2] -> who -> the former chairman of Illinois Tool Works
Arg2-as:	a `` tool-and-die man ''
ArgM-TMP:	when GE brought him in [*-4] to clean up Kidder in 1987 [*T*-3]