Predicate: excavate
Roleset id: excavate.01 , dig a big hole, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
excavate.01: EXCAVATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'excavate' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 35.2. (from excavate.01-v predicate notes) EXCAVATION-N NOTES: Based on ontonotes nouns. Comparison to excavate.01-v. Excavate.01 is a member of VN class search-35.2. Framed by Katie. (from excavation.01-n)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| excavate (v.) | | |
| excavation (n.) | | |
Roles:
Arg0-PAG: excavator, digger (vnrole: 35.2-Agent)
Arg1-LOC: hole (vnrole: 35.2-Location)
Example: intransitive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: perfect, voice: active, form: participle
The city's mayor vowed to take legal action against developers who*trace* had been excavating at the crest of the hill.
Arg0: *trace*
ArgM-RCL: who -> developers
Rel: excavating
ArgM-LOC: at the crest of the hill
Example: passive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
Before the Gutfreunds finally left this unfriendly environment fora prodigious duplex on Fifth Avenue and an 18th-century mansion with aspecially excavated $1 million garage in Paris, the Postels hadobtained an injunction to prevent any future hoisting of trees, and ina neighborly spirit hit both the Gutfreunds and the building with a$35 million lawsuit.
ArgM-MNR: specially
Rel: excavated
Arg1: garage
Example: hole as "thing dug into"
His historical excavation of the life of Donal Rumsfeld
Arg0: His
Argm-adj: historical
Rel: excavation
Arg1: of the life of Donal Rumsfeld