Predicate: lynch

Roleset id: lynch.01 , execution as by a mob, often by hanging, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

lynch.01: LYNCH-V, LYNCH-N NOTES: Added by Julia for AMR.

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
lynch (v.)
lynching (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: violent mob
        Arg1-PPT: victim

Example: lynch-v: hanging, with GOL

        We wish to let you know the sickness of our hearts occasioned by the outrage committed on us by a mob of Americans who-1 [*-1] had come to Sumass and took an innocent Indian boy fifteen years of age and, without five minutes' warning, lynched him to the next tree they met.

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Argm-mnr: without five minutes warning
        Rel: lynched
        Arg1: him
        Argm-gol: to a tree

Example: lynching-n

        Seeking to justify their lynching of a white woman, stockmen and their apologists conflated Watson with a local prostitute, "Cattle Kate," in newspaper accounts and invented stories about her past...

        Arg0: their
        Rel: lynching
        Arg1: of a white woman