Roleset relieve.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "help, ease, get rid of":

Roles:

Arg0:thing relieving


Arg1:thing being helped, eased, gotten rid of


Arg2:benefactive

Examples:

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


straight transitive (-)
Ports in the Great Lakes and Atlantic Coast can also relieve pressure on New Orleans.
Arg0:	Ports in the Great Lakes and Atlantic Coast
ArgM-MOD:	can
ArgM-DIS:	also
REL:	relieve
Arg1:	pressure on New Orleans

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


benefactive: relieve of (-)
Mr. Wall relieved them of responsibility for supervising Lincoln in 1988.
Arg0:	Mr. Wall
REL:	relieved
Arg2:	them
Arg1-of:	responsibility for supervising Lincoln
ArgM-TMP:	in 1988

Roleset relieve.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "make feel better":

Roles:

Arg0:reliever


Arg1:patient, relieved


Arg2:instrument or manner

Examples:

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


prepositional arg0 (-)
With investors relieved at the overnight gain in New York stocks, small-lot buying orders streamed into the market from early morning, making traders believe the market was back to normal.
Arg1:	investors
REL:	relieved
Arg0-at:	the overnight gain in New York stocks

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


more normal arg0 (-)
And some commuters, relieved *trace* by the absence of gridlock, were planning to return to their old ways.
REL:	relieved
Arg1:	*trace* -> some commuters
Arg0-by:	the absence of gridlock

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle
Note that here the complementizer is mandatory!

sentential arg0 (-)
Around Wall Street, trading desks were relieved *trace* that they could at least play the market yesterday, in contrast to Friday's gridlock.
ArgM-LOC:	Around Wall Street
REL:	relieved
Arg1:	*trace* -> trading desks
Arg0:	that they could at least play the market yesterday, in contrast to Friday's gridlock