Execution : murder-42.1












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NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Executioner) V () NP (Executed)
N (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner)
NP (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner)
N (Executioner) V () NP (Executed)
NP (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner) AVP (Manner)
N (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner) PP[for] (Reason)
NP (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner) PP[for] (Reason)
NP (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner) PP[in] (Instrument)
NP (Executioner) V () NP (Executed) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Executed) V () CNI (Executioner) PP[in] (Place) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Executioner) V () NP (Executed) PP[for] (Reason)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument) NP (Executioner) V () NP (Executed) PP[with] (Instrument)
NP.instrument (Instrument) V () NP (Patient)


Examples from WordNet


In some states, criminals are executed



Examples from VerbNet


Brutus murdered Julius Caesar.
The DDT killed the insects.
Caesar killed Brutus with a knife.



Examples from SemCor


Two Americans and seven Cubans were executed by firing_squads today as Castro military tribunals began decreeing the death_penalty for captured invasion forces and suspected collaborators.
The infamous Wansee_Conference called by Heydrich in January 1942, to organize the material and technical means to put_to_death the eleven million Jews spread throughout the nations of Europe, was attended by representatives of major organs of the German state, including the Reich_Minister_of_the_Interior, the State_Secretary of the Four_Year_Plan, the Reich_Minister_of_Justice, the Under_Secretary_of_Foreign_Affairs.
Thomas_de_Torquemada, Inquisitor-General of the Spanish_Inquisition, put many persons to death.
In February the murder of Patrice_Lumumba, who had been kidnaped into Katanga and executed on order of Tshombe, again stirred the U._N. to action.