Roleset shoot.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "propel projectile":

Roles:

Arg0:shooter


Arg1:projectile


Arg2:target

Examples:

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


all args (-)
WHEN HURRICANE Hugo careened through the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast states, it downed electric and telephone lines, shot coconuts through cottage rooftops, shattered windows and uprooted thousands of lives.
ArgM-TMP:	WHEN HURRICANE Hugo careened through the Caribbean and the Atlantic coast states
Arg0:	it
REL:	shot
Arg1:	coconuts
Arg2-through:	cottage rooftops

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


unmentioned projectiles (-)
When the smoke cleared, six people were dead (three from heart attacks), and everyone wondered what in the world they were shooting at *trace*.
Arg0:	they
REL:	shooting
Arg2-at:	*trace* -> what in the world

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


weird kind of target (-)
People are shooting for a dream.
Arg0:	People
REL:	shooting
Arg2-for:	a dream

Roleset shoot.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "kill with gun":

Roles:

Arg0:shooter


Arg1:corpse


Arg2:gun


Arg3:specific location of wound

Examples:

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


just corpse (-)
Most of the cases have been in California, where one agent was stabbed and another was shot and killed *trace*.
REL:	shot
Arg1:	*trace* -> another

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


friendly fire (-)
``Conservatives shoot their own,'' he says.
Arg0:	Conservatives
REL:	shoot
Arg1:	their own

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


with explicit wound (-)
The first time he was shot *trace* in the hand as he chased the robbers outside.
ArgM-TMP:	The first time
REL:	shot
Arg1:	*trace* -> he
Arg3-in:	the hand
ArgM-TMP:	as he chased the robbers outside

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


with weapon (-)
Mary shot John with a rubber band.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	shot
Arg1:	John
Arg2-with:	a rubber band

Roleset shoot.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "record on film":

Roles:

Arg0:videographer


Arg1:video

Examples:

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


shoot film (-)
In 1976, as a film student at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York, Mr. Lane shot ``A Place in Time,'' a 36-minute black-and-white film about a sketch artist, a man of the streets.
ArgM-TMP:	In 1976
ArgM:	as a film student at the Purchase campus of the State University of New York
Arg0:	Mr. Lane
REL:	shot
Arg1:	``A Place in Time,'' a 36-minute black-and-white film about a sketch artist, a man of the streets

Watch for manner adverbials: shoot in black-and-white, for example.

Roleset shoot.06 Verbnet Class: NONE "move very rapidly":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of motion


Arg1:entity in motion


Arg2:EXT


Arg3:start point


Arg4:end point


Arg5:direction

Examples:

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


usually shoot up (-)
The Dow industrials shot up 23 points in the opening hour, at least in part because of buy programs generated by stock-index arbitrage, a form of program trading involving futures contracts.
Arg1:	The Dow industrials
REL:	shot
Arg5-DIR:	up
Arg2-EXT:	23 points
ArgM-TMP:	in the opening hour
ArgM-CAU:	at least in part because of buy programs generated by stock-index arbitrage, a form of program trading involving futures contracts

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


sometimes down (-)
In particular, the prices of gold and other precious-metals stocks shoot up and down, but the stocks tend to have low betas because their moves are not market-inspired.
Arg1:	the prices of gold and other precious-metals stocks
REL:	shoot
Arg5-DIR:	up and down

If you haven't seen quantifiable-motion verbs before (and how have you managed that, exactly?) look at 'rise' or 'fall' for additional examples.

Roleset shoot.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "loose wildly":

Roles:

Arg0:shooter


Arg1:cannon, mouth, whatever

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


blah blah blah (-)
John is forever shooting off his mouth.
Arg0:	John
Argm-TMP:	forever
REL:	shooting off
Arg1:	his mouth

I really thought this would occur in wsj.

Roleset shoot.05 Verbnet Class: NONE "cause to not fly":

Roles:

Arg0:shooter


Arg1:planes, birds, ideas


Arg2:instrument

Examples:

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


instrumental subject (-)
``Ideas are going over borders, and there's no SDI ideological weapon that *trace* can shoot them down,'' he told a group of Americans at the U.S. Embassy on Wednesday.
Arg2:	*trace* -> that -> no SDI ideological weapon
ArgM-MOD:	can
REL:	[ shoot] [ down]
Arg1:	them

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


agentive subject (-)
As a result, Ireland didn't spurn the Soviets after they shot down a Korean Air Lines jetliner over the Sea of Japan in 1983, though it suspended direct Moscow-Shannon flights for two months.
Arg0:	they
REL:	[ shot] [ down]
Arg1:	a Korean Air Lines jetliner
ArgM-LOC:	over the Sea of Japan
ArgM-TMP:	in 1983

Roleset shoot.07 Verbnet Class: NONE "answer":

Roles:

Arg0:speaker


Arg1:utterance


Arg2:hearer

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


maybe hearer can't occur (-)
And when he's told ``Try a little tenderness,'' he shoots back ``I'm going home to try a little linguine.''
ArgM-DIS:	And
ArgM-TMP:	when he's told ``Try a little tenderness
Arg0:	he
REL:	[ shoots] [ back]
Arg1:	I'm going home to try a little linguine