Rolesets - squat

squat

squat.01 - sit ungracefully

SQUAT-V NOTES: Frames file for 'squat' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries 47.6, 50; Framenet entries Residence and Posture. (from squat.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

squat (v.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: thing sitting, squatting
ARG2-LOC: location

squat-v: passive?

`` But the Filipinos and the Americans , when I talk to them , there 's so much passion about
Filipino manhoodARG2
being diminished as a result of being
squattedrel
uponC-ARG2
by the AmericansARG1
and so on .

squat.02 - occupy a building illegally

SQUAT-V NOTES: I'm not sure if the preposition is necessary or even allowed. (from squat.02-v)

Aliases:

squat (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: occupier
ARG1-PPT: occupied

squat-v: ARG0 and ARG1

To care for all of the region 's displaced Iraqis , the agency had a total budget of $ 22 million in 2006 -- less than $ 7 a person , which must cover not only the Kafkaesque registration programs but also basic survival aid to
refugeesARG0
trapped in desert camps or
squattingrel
in abandoned buildingsARG1
.