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
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
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
.