Frameset

Predicate exhaust:

Frames file for 'exhaust' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 31.1, other framed members include comfort, convince depress, encourage, interest, reassure, repel, scare, shock, spook, threaten, worry and probably some others. Comparison with those.

Roleset exhaust.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "cause to become used up, tired":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of tiredness

Arg1:thing becoming exhausted

Examples:

use up, no instrument (-)
`But increasing volatility in the sector has exhausted investors who try to follow its dips and swings.`
ArgM-DIS:	But
Arg0:	increasing volatility in the sector
REL:	exhausted
Arg1:	investors who try to follow its dips and swings

use up, instrumental subject (-)
John's ceaseless pleas for more ice cream exhausted Mary's patience.

Arg0: John's ceaseless pleas for more ice cream

REL: exhausted

Arg1: Mary's patience

use up, instrumental subject (-)
`John's ceaseless pleas for more ice cream exhausted Mary's patience.`
Arg0:	John's ceaseless pleas for more ice cream
REL:	exhausted
Arg1:	Mary's patience

tire, instrumental subject (-)
Playing on the swingset all afternoon exhausted John.

Arg0: Playing on the swingset all afternoon

REL: exhausted

Arg1: John

tire, instrumental subject (-)
`Playing on the swingset all afternoon exhausted John.`
Arg0:	Playing on the swingset all afternoon
REL:	exhausted
Arg1:	John

Probably there are two senses being conflated here, "use up" and "become tired," but they're close enough and take the same PAS. It's easy to see how the two senses evolved.