Frames file for 'soothe' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset soothe.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to calm":
Roles:
Arg0:causer
Arg1:entity soothed
Examples:
transitive (-)
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: infinitive
However , at a news conference Thursday , Mrs. Aquino backed the project and said [0] her government was attempting [*-1] to soothe the feelings of residents at the original site , adjacent to the government 's major petroleum refinery in Bataan province .
Arg0:
[*-1] -> her government
REL:
soothe
Arg1:
the feelings of residents at the original site , adjacent to the government 's major petroleum refinery in Bataan province