Roleset frustrate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "cause angst":

Roles:

Arg0:causer, frustrater


Arg1:entity frustrated


Arg2:target of frustration

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


would this actually work? (-)
Sometimes, if the hacker seemed to be into a sensitive file, he would drag his keychain across the terminal *trace* to create static or slow the system down *trace* to frustrate his quarry.
Arg0:	*trace* -> *trace* -> he
REL:	frustrate
Arg1:	his quarry

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


passive (-)
Corporate leaders, frustrated *trace* by double-digit increases in health-care costs, are beginning to sound like liberal Democrats.
REL:	frustrated
Arg1:	*trace* -> Corporate leaders
Arg0-by:	double-digit increases in health-care costs

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


exceptional use of arg2 (-)
But the Fed isn't enthusiastic about Treasury efforts to bring down the value of the dollar through intervention in foreign-exchange markets, and the Treasury is frustrated *trace* at the Fed's reluctance to cut interest rates to pull down the dollar's value.
REL:	frustrated
Arg1:	*trace* -> the Treasury
Arg2-at:	the Fed's reluctance to cut interest rates to pull down the dollar's value

Usually for class 31.1 arg2 is the instrument, and only present when the subject is also present. This is exceptional. It would seem weird to introduce arg0 by 'at', and there's a real semantic difference between the causer of frustration, and the target. of the frustration.