lynch
lynch.01 - execution as by a mob, often by hanging
LYNCH-V, LYNCH-N NOTES: Added by Julia for AMR.Aliases:
lynch (v.)
lynching (n.)
lynching (n.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: violent mob
ARG1-PPT: victim
ARG1-PPT: victim
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
whoARG0
had come to Sumass and took an innocent Indian boy fifteen years of age and , without five minutes ' warningARGM-MNR
, lynchedrel
himARG1
to the next tree they metARGM-GOL
.lynching-n
Seeking to justify
theirARG0
lynchingrel
of a white womanARG1
, stockmen and their apologists conflated Watson with a local prostitute , " Cattle Kate , " in newspaper accounts and invented stories about her past ...