Predicate: taint
Frames file for 'taint' based on sentences in financial subcorpus and
automatic expansion via verbnet.
Roleset id: taint.01 , contaminate, vncls: 9.8
Roles:
Arg0: cause/source of contamination
Arg1: thing becoming contaminated
Arg2: contaminant
Example: note the instrument
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
According to department policy, prosecutors must make a strong
showing that lawyers' fees came from [assets]-1 tainted *trace*-1 by
illegal profits before any attempts at seizure are made.
Rel : tainted
Arg1 : *trace*
Arg2 : by illegal profits
Example: with contaminant
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John taints any room he enters with his foul stench.
Arg0 : John
Rel : taints
Arg1 : any room he enters
Arg2 : with his foul stench
Example: transitive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: perfect, voice: active, form: participle
At stake was an $80,000 settlement involving who should pay what
share of cleanup costs at the site of a former gas station, where
underground fuel tanks had leaked and taintd the soil.
Arg0 : underground fuel tanks
Rel : tainted
Arg1 : the soil