Predicate: oblige
Roleset id: oblige.01 , to please or help, vncls: -
Roles:
Arg0: pleaser, helper
Arg1: please or help whom? entity pleased by arg 0
Example: intransitive
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
The Rev. Alphonsus Trabold , a theology professor and exorcism expert at St. Bonaventure University in Olean , N.Y. , frequently is asked [*-1] [*-2] to exorcise unruly spirits , and he often obliges .
Arg0 : he
Argm-tmp : often
Rel : obliges
Example: With arg 1
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
It was very nice of y'all *PRO* to oblige us.
Arg0 : *PRO*
Rel : oblige
Arg1 : us
Roleset id: oblige.02 , to force to do something, vncls: 59
Roles:
Arg0: causal agent
Arg1: obligated
Arg2: obligation
Example: passive
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
The Orwellian `` New World Information Order '' would give government officials rights against the press ; journalists-1 would be obliged [*-1] to kowtow to their government , which [*T*-28] would have licensing and censorship powers and , indeed , duties [*] to block printing of `` wrong '' ideas .
Argm-mod : would
Rel : obliged
Arg1 : [*-1]
Arg2 : to kowtow to their government , which [*T*-28] would have licensing and censorship powers and , indeed , duties [*] to block printing of `` wrong '' ideas
Frames file for 'oblige' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.