Predicate: justify

Roleset id: justify.01 , show to be right, valid, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

justify.01: JUSTIFY-V NOTES: Frames file for 'justify' based on examples from full corpus. VN class message_transfer-37.1.1. FN classes deserving and justifying. Updated 5/11 by Katie. (from justify.01-v) JUSTIFICATION-N NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT, justify.01. Corresponds to VNcls transfer_mesg-37.1.1. (from justification.01-n) JUSTIFIED-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-1, justify-v.01. Corresponds to VNcls message_transfer-37.1.1. (from justified.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
justification (n.)Justifying
justified (j.)
justify (v.)Deserving Justifying

Roles:

        Arg structure from the verb generally preserved. (from justified.01-j)
        Arg0-PAG: justifier (vnrole: 37.1.1-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: decision or attitude being shown to be right (vnrole: 37.1.1-Topic)
        Arg2-MNR: explicit instrument
        Arg3-PRD: secondary predication
        Arg4-GOL: benefactive, justified to

Example: simple transitive

        As a country superimposes its cultural and political attitudes on others, it-1 searches its heritage in hopes of *trace*-1 justifying its aggressiveness.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: justifying
        Arg1: its aggressiveness

Example: instrument and attribute

        Since [the hazards]-1 of poor communication are so great , [*trace*-1]-2 can bejustified *trace*-2 as a habitable site only on the basis of unusualproductivity such as is made available by a waterfall for millingpurposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.

        Argm-cau: Since the hazards of poor communication are so great
        Argm-mod: can
        Rel: justified
        Arg1: *trace*-2
        Arg3: as a habitable site
        Arg2: only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes , a mine , or a sugar maple camp

Example: with benefactive

        I-1 'd have a hard time *trace*-1 justifying to my students that it wasn't cheating.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: justifying
        Arg4: to my students
        Arg1: that it wasn't cheating.

Example: arg1

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Yet the justification they keep using for this intervention is to ' enforce humanitarian law authorised by the United Nations ' .

        Rel: justification
        Argm-adj: they keep using
        Arg1: for this intervention

Example: args 1, 3

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        George Zimmerman "didn't do anything unlawful" and was "justified" in shooting 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, according to one of the jurors who acquitted Zimmerman.

        Arg1: George Zimmerman
        Rel: justified
        Arg3: in shooting 17 year old Trayvon Martin
        Argm-adv: according to one of the jurors who acquitted Zimmerman

Example: just arg1

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        It is understandable they are upset , but neither Ron Paul nor anyone else who is supporting him is saying their response was in any way justified

        Arg1: their response
        Argm-mnr: in any way
        Rel: justified


Predicate: just

Roleset id: just.02 , ethically/morally fair, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

just.02: JUST-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-1, comparison to fair-j.01. (from just.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
just (j.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: agent of fair actions
        Arg1-PPT: fair actions
        Arg2-GOL: target of fair behavior, beneficiary

Example: args 0, 2

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        He was just to them because he was just.

        Arg0: he
        Rel: just
        Arg2: to them
        Argm-cau: because he was just

Example: arg1, empty it

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Thus , it is just and needed for the US to impose such sanctions on Iran .

        Argm-dis: Thus
        Rel: just
        Arg1: for the US to impose such sanctions on Iran