Predicate: unhinge

Frames file for 'unhinge' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus.

Roleset id: unhinge.01 , to disrupt, confuse, vncls: -

Roles:

        Arg0: cause, agent
        Arg1: entity unhinged

Example: transitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: perfect,  voice: active,  form: participle

        [*-1] Testifying before a House subcommittee , Mr. Mulford said that if the Treasury had n't intervened in foreign-exchange markets in September and early October [*-2] to reduce the dollar 's value , the plunge in the stock market might have provoked a steep fall in the currency that [*T*-97] might have `` unhinged financial markets . ''

        ArgM-RCL : that -> a steep fall
        Arg0 : [*T*-97]
        ArgM-MOD : might
        Rel : unhinged
        Arg1 : financial markets

Roleset id: unhinge.02 , disconnect, vncls: -

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, causer of disconnection
        Arg1: topic, focus
        Arg2: disconnected from, if separate from arg1

Example: passive

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        On Friday, [the stock-index futures market]-1 was unhinged [*-1] from
        the stock market when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange halted
        trading in Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract -- a
        ``circuit breaker'' procedure instituted after the 1987 crash and
        implemented for the first time.

        ArgM-TMP : On Friday
        Rel : unhinged
        Arg1 : [*-1]
        Arg2 : from the stock market
        ArgM-TMP : when the Chicago Mercantile Exchange halted trading in Standard & Poor's 500 futures contract
        ArgM : a ``circuit breaker'' procedure instituted after the 1987 crash and implemented for the first time