Roleset kowtow.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to kneel or fawn":

Roles:

Arg0:subservient entity


Arg1:entity kowtowed to

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
The Orwellian `` New World Information Order '' would give government officials rights against the press ; journalists would be obliged [*-1] to kowtow to their government , which [*T*-28] would have licensing and censorship powers and , indeed , duties [*] to block printing of `` wrong '' ideas .
Arg0:	[*-1] -> journalists
REL:	kowtow
Arg1-to:	their government , which [*T*-28] would have licensing and censorship powers and , indeed , duties [*] to block printing of `` wrong '' ideas