destroy-44
Members
- annihilate 1
- blitz 1
- damage
- decimate 2
- demolish 1
- desecrate
- destroy 1 2
- devastate 1
- disfigure
- efface
- exterminate 1
- extirpate 1
- maim
- mutilate
- obliterate 4
- ravage 2
- raze 1
- ruin 1
- undo
- waste 5 9
- wreck 1
- shatter 1 2
Roles
- Agent
[+int_control]
- Patient
[+concrete]
- Instrument
[+concrete]
Frames
- Basic Transitive
- ex: "The Romans destroyed the city"
sym: Agent V Patient
sem: cause(Agent, E)
destroyed(result(E), Patient)
- NP-PP Instrument-PP
- ex: "The builders destroyed the warehouse with explosives"
sym: Agent V Patient with Instrument
sem: cause(Agent, E)
use(during(E), Agent, Instrument)
destroyed(result(E), Patient)
- Instrument Subject Alternation
- ex: "The explosives destroyed the warehouse"
sym: Instrument V Patient
sem: cause(?Agent, E)
use(during(E), ?Agent, Instrument)
destroyed(result(E), Patient)