Predicate: embarrass

embarrass: Frames file for 'embarrass' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 31.1, Framenet entry Experiencer obj.

Roleset id: embarrass.01 , cause shame, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of shame (vnrole: 31.1-Cause)
        Arg1: embarrassed entity (vnrole: 31.1-Experiencer)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0

Example: nice easy transitive

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

        But State Department officials accuse Israel-1 of *trace*-1 leaking
        questionable claims *trace*-1 to embarrass the U.S.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: embarrass
        Arg1: the U.S.

Example: passivized

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

        Conservatives-1, embarrassed *trace*-1 by Republican
        influence-peddling scandals at the Department of Housing and Urban
        Development, have used the issue in an effort to shift blame onto
        a Democratic-controlled Congress.

        Rel: embarrassed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: by Republican influence-peddling scandals at the Department of Housing and Urban Development

Example: all args

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

        John embarrassed Mary by publically proclaiming his undying love
        for her.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: embarrassed
        Arg1: Mary
        Arg2: by publically proclaiming his undying love for her.

Example: adjectival: progressive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Two such actions, both filed earlier this year in Georgia state
        court in Atlanta, could be particularly embarrassing to the
        industry: both name J. Chandler Peterson, an Atlanta financial
        planner who is a founder and past chairman of the IAFP, as
        defendant.

        Arg0: Two such actions, both filed earlier this year in Georgia state court in Atlanta,
        ArgM-MOD: could
        ArgM-ADV: particularly
        Rel: embarrassing
        Arg1: to the industry

Example: adjectival: different preposition

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Lincoln's treatment by former thrift regulators, in an agency
        disbanded by the new law, has proved embarrassing for five
        senators who received thousands of dollars in campaign
        contributions from Mr. Keating.

        Arg0: Lincoln's treatment by former thrift regulators, in an agency disbanded by the new law,
        Rel: embarrassing
        Arg1: for five senators who received thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Mr. Keating

Example: adjectival: passive

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

        People are too embarrassed *trace* to say they haven't done anything.''

        Arg1: People
        Rel: embarrassed
        Arg0: *trace* to say they haven't done anything