Predicate: disturb

disturb: Frames file for 'disturb' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 31.1, Framenet entry Experiencer_obj.

Roleset id: disturb.01 , bother, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

disturb.01: I don't read this at-phrase the same as I do the at-phrases for 'frustrate'; this seems equivalent to a by-phrase, whereas for 'frustrate' the two are not interchangeable.

Roles:

        Arg0: disturber (vnrole: 31.1-Cause)
        Arg1: disturbed (vnrole: 31.1-Experiencer)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0

Example: active

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

        But the administration's handling of the fetal-tissue transplant
        issue disturbs many scientists.

        ArgM-DIS: But
        Arg0: the administration's handling of the fetal-tissue transplant issue
        Rel: disturbs
        Arg1: many scientists

Example: normal passive

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

        [Some analysts]-1 also were disturbed *trace*-1 by a pickup in the
        growth of business inventories.

        ArgM-DIS: also
        Rel: disturbed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: by a pickup in the growth of business inventories

Example: passivized subject introduced by weird preposition

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

        They-1 were disturbed *trace*-1 at what they regarded as
        Dr. Baltimore's confrontational attitude toward the Dingell
        committee, which held hearings on a dispute over the lab notebooks
        of a researcher who had co-authored a scientific paper with
        Dr. Baltimore.

        Rel: disturbed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: at what they regarded as Dr. Baltimore's confrontational attitude toward the Dingell committee, which held hearings on a dispute over the lab notebooks of a researcher who had co-authored a scientific paper with Dr. Baltimore