Roleset gouge.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "put deep grooves or scratches into a surface":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of gouges


Arg1:surface

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


adessive (-)
What had he thought of, to go to John, grovel and beg understanding? To confess with a canvas chair as a prie-dieu, [*-2] gouging at his heart until a rough and stupid hand bade him rise and go?
Arg0:	[*-2]
REL:	gouging
Arg1-at:	at his heart
Argm-TMP:	until a rough and stupid hand bade him rise and go

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


more commonly transitive (-)
Quickly but carefully lowering my duffel bag over the low side-rack, I stepped on the running board; it flopped down, sprang back up and gouged my shin.
Arg0:	it
REL:	gouged
Arg1:	my shin

Roleset gouge.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "extort money, swindle":

Roles:

Arg0:petty crook


Arg1:money


Arg2:source

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


the one example (-)
There I was, a retired wobbly and structural iron worker who [*T*-1] 'd never gouged a cent off a fellow worker in my thirty years in the movement.
Arg0:	[*T*-1] -> who -> a retired wobbly and structural iron worker
REL:	gouged
Arg1:	a cent
Arg2-off:	off a fellow worker
Argm-TMP:	in my thirty years in the movement