Rolesets - strive

strive

strive.01 - try, attempt

STRIVE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'strive' based on sentences in financial subcorpus; nominal 'striving' based on BOLT-7. No verbnet entry. Comparison with 'try'. (from strive.01-v)
STRIVING-N NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from striving.01-n)

Aliases:

striving (n.)
strive (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: Agent/Entity Trying
ARG1-PPT: thing tried

typical usage

Sotheby 's , the auction house founded in London 1744 and now under the umbrella of Sotheby 's Holdings Inc. , was hoping to stir up interest in old masters as
itARG0
stroverel
to build its U.S. businessARG1
.

nominal rel: striving

But in
hisARG0
strivingrel
to overcome his victimARG1
, we see his cowardice again .