Frames file for 'ham' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry.
Roleset ham.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "be a ham, overact":
Roles:
Arg0:overactor
Arg1:fixed: it
Examples:
fixed phrase: ham it up (-)
person: third
tense: present
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
But it is the Trinity Rep newcomer, Jonathan Fried (Zamislov, the
paralegal) who is the actor to watch, whether he is hamming it up
while conducting the chamber musicians or seducing his neighbor's
wife (Becca Lish) by licking her bosom.