Predicate: assure

assure: Frames file for 'assure' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: assure.01 , calm someone's nerves, vncls: 37.9 37.13 99, framnet: Telling

assure.01: The line between passive and adjectival is very thin, so go ahead and tag everything. VN updated by Julia, 9/2010. Member of Vncls ensure-99, advise-37.9, promise-37.13.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of assurance (vnrole: 37.9-agent, 37.13-agent, 99-cause)
        Arg1: assured one (vnrole: 37.9-recipient, 37.13-recipient, 99-beneficiary)
        Arg2: assurance, utterance (vnrole: 37.9-topic, 37.13-topic, 99-theme)

Example: all args

        A spokesman for AMR Corp. said Boeing has assured American
        Airlines it will deliver a 757 on time later this month.

        Arg0: Boeing
        Rel: assured
        Arg1: American Airlines
        Arg2: it will deliver a 757 on time later this month

Example: passivized

        They also worry that if the government applies asset-forfeiture
        laws broadly, the best defense lawyers will be unwilling to take
        criminal cases unless they-1 are assured *trace*-1 of being paid.

        Rel: assured
        Arg1: *trace*-1 (= they)
        Arg2: of being paid

Example: almost adjectival

        It was in Jaguar's best interests ``for [the company's future]-1 to be
        assured *trace*-1 and the present climate of uncertainty resolved as quickly
        as possible,'' Mr. Ridley said.

        Rel: assured
        Arg: *trace*-1 (= the company 's future)