Roleset constrain.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "prevent, hinder":

Roles:

Arg0:preventer, hinderer, Agent


Arg1:Theme (action or object being prevented)


Arg2:secondary predication or action


Arg3:instrument

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


theme and action (-)
General Mills, meanwhile, finds itself constrained *trace* from boosting sales further because its plants are operating at capacity.
REL:	constrained
Arg1:	*trace* -> itself
Arg2-from:	boosting sales further
ArgM-CAU:	because its plants are operating at capacity

Arg1 does not take -REC in this case because there is no other instance of that entity in this structure. "Find" would take a -REC tag, because that shows both "GM" and "itself". person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with agent? (-)
Mary constrained John from eating the chocolate bunny.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	constrained
Arg1:	John
Arg2-from:	eating the chocolate bunny