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:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| 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:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| 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