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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="battle">
<note>
  Frames file for 'battle' based on survey of sentences in financial
  subcorpus.  No verbnet entry.  
</note>

<roleset id="battle.01" name="fight (with)" vncls="36.3">
<roles>
  <role descr="combatant" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="36.3" vntheta="Actor1"/></role>

  <role descr="fight or other combatant, if separate" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="36.3" vntheta="Actor2"/></role>

  <role descr="spoils" n="2"/>
</roles>

<example name="basic transitive">
<text>
    At Kidder, a unit of General Electric Co., and other big brokerage
    firms, stockbrokers battle their own firm's program traders a few
    floors away. 
</text>
        <arg f="LOC" n="M">At Kidder, a unit of General Electric Co.,
        and other big brokerage firms</arg> 
        <arg n="0">stockbrokers</arg>
        <rel>battle</rel>
        <arg n="1">their own firm 's program traders a few floors away</arg>
</example>

<example name="all args">
<text>
    Its 6,500 workers, who *trace* had battled Tiger's management for
    years over givebacks, were union members until the day of the
    merger, when most of their unions were automatically decertified.
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace* -&gt; who -&gt; Its 6,500 workers</arg>
        <rel>battled</rel>
        <arg n="1">Tiger 's management</arg>
        <arg f="TMP" n="M">for years</arg>
        <arg f="over" n="2">givebacks</arg>
</example>


<example name="merged combatants">
<text>
    That's the view of some analysts here who argue that Britain's
    leading maker of luxury cars still may have two U.S. auto giants
    battling for it. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">two U.S. auto giants</arg>
        <rel>battling</rel>
        <arg f="for" n="2">it</arg>
</example>

<note>
</note>

</roleset>
</predicate>
</frameset>
