Predicate: torture
Roleset id: torture.01 , torture, event of torturing, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
torture.01: TORTURE-V NOTES: VN class amuse-31.1. Updated by Julia, 10/2010. (from torture.01-v) TORTURE-N NOTES: Added by Julia based on torture-v.01. Corresponds to VN class amuse-31.1. (from torture.01-n)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
torture (v.) | Cause_harm | |
torture (n.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: torturer (vnrole: 31.1-stimulus)
        Arg1-PPT: entity being tortured (vnrole: 31.1-experiencer)
Example: just transitive
        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        The Barre dictatorship simply is limited in the amount of people [0]-1 it can torture and kill *trace*-1.
        Arg0: it
        Argm-mod: can
        Rel: torture
        Arg1: *trace*-1 (= [0])
        Argm-slc: [0] -> people
Example: ARG1 and ARG0
        It hurts to think of how many wonderful people in Iraq at the academic community , lawyers , human rights activists , civilians , intellectuals , people -- would now be alive , who have been horribly murdered and tortured and reduced to misery since by a half application of violence through sanctions and overflights .
        Arg1: who
        Argm-mnr: horribly
        Rel: tortured
        Arg0: by a half application of violence through sanctions and overflights
Example: with CAU
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        The former shows that intellectuals in Taiwan need no longer fear torture and imprisonment for their beliefs .
        Rel: torture
        Argm-cau: for their beliefs
Example: args 0 and 1
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        Hospitalised MDC youths narrate their torture at he hands of hired Zanu PF thugs.
        Arg1: their
        Rel: torture
        Arg0: at the hands of hired Zany PF thugs
Example: both args, different syntactic arrangment
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        In 1997 the German murderers Ernst Dieter Korzen and Stefan Michael Mahn recorded their torture of two prostitutes whom they had kidnapped.
        Arg0: their
        Rel: torture
        Arg1: of two prostitutes whom they had kidnapped
Example: with MNR
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        You recount the torture of prisoners with electricity by Seattle police in the 1920's.
        Rel: torture
        Arg1: of prisoners
        Argm-mnr: with electricity
        Arg0: by Seattle police
        Argm-tmp: in the 1920's
Example: with MNR
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        are you saying we shouldn't have prosecuted Japanese soldiers for the water torture of our own soldiers in WWII?
        Argm-mnr: water
        Rel: torture
        Arg1: of our own soldiers
        Argm-tmp: in WWII