Predicate: bless

bless: Frames file for 'bless' based on sentences in wsj and automatic expansion via verbnet.

Roleset id: bless.01 , bless, vncls: 33, framnet:

bless.01: This verb doesn't fit easily into this class; arg2 is usually a role (applaud as or for) and the fact that the gift can only occur with a passivized verb is suspicious also. Perhaps the class needs to be split, or the membership reevaluated.

Roles:

        Arg0: entity giving blessing (vnrole: 33-Agent)
        Arg1: entity being blessed (vnrole: 33-Theme)
        Arg2: blessed with (gift) (vnrole: 33-Cause)

Example: straight transitive

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

        [Jaguar shareholders]-2 would have *trace*-2 to bless such a
        far-reaching accord.

        Arg0: *trace*-2
        Rel: bless
        Arg1: such a far-reaching accord

Example: unstated blesser

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

        I have seen one or two men die, *trace* bless them.

        Arg0:
        Rel: bless
        Arg1: them

Example: with gift

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

        Though [I've]-1 been blessed *trace*-1 with academic degrees and some
        success in the materialistic world, I've never forgotten or lost
        contact with those memories of the 1930s.

        Rel: blessed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: with academic degrees and some success in the materialistic world

Example: predicative gift

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

        To Mr. Engelken, it is also a story ``about love, because I'm
        blessed to have a wife who still thinks her slightly eccentric
        husband's 50th birthday deserves the ultimate present.''

        Arg1: I
        Rel: blessed
        Arg2: to have a wife who still thinks her slightly eccentric husband's 50th birthday deserves the ultimate present