excavate
excavate.01 - dig a big hole
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:
excavate (v.)
excavation (n.)
excavation (n.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: excavator, digger
ARG1-LOC: hole
ARG1-LOC: hole
intransitive
The city 's mayor vowed to take legal action against
developersARG0
whoR-ARG0
had been excavatingrel
at the crest of the hillARGM-LOC
.passive
Before the Gutfreunds finally left this unfriendly environment for a prodigious duplex on Fifth Avenue and an 18th - century mansion with a
speciallyARGM-MNR
excavatedrel
$ 1 million garageARG1
in Paris , the Postels had obtained an injunction to prevent any future hoisting of trees , and in a neighborly spirit hit both the Gutfreunds and the building with a $ 35 million lawsuit .hole as "thing dug into"
HisARG0
historicalARGM-ADJ
excavationrel
of the life of Donal RumsfeldARG1