Predicate: empower

empower: Frames file for 'empower' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry, might could fit into "other causative".

Roleset id: empower.01 , give power to, vncls: , framnet:

empower.01: Actually rather close to 'allow' etc.

Roles:

        Arg0: giver of power
        Arg1: empowered entity
        Arg2: use of power

Example: useless power :)

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

        A group of 27 Senators has written Mr. Kemp urging him to reject
        Cranston-Mitchell and focus on programs that *trace* empower the
        poor rather than create vast new government obligations.

        Arg0: *trace*
        ArgM-RCL: that -> programs
        Rel: empower
        Arg1: the poor

Example: with use

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

        It also empowers the president to make recess appointments,
        without Senate approval: ``The President shall have Power to fill
        up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate,
        by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their
        next Session.''

        Arg0: It
        ArgM-DIS: also
        Rel: empowers
        Arg1: the president
        Arg2: to make recess appointments, without Senate approval

Example: passive warrants separation of powered and power

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

        The report is subject to review by the State Commission on
        Judicial Conduct , which *trace*-1 is empowered *trace*-1 to impose
        sanctions.

        Rel: empowered
        Arg1: *trace*
        ArgM-RCL: which -> the State Commission on Judicial Conduct
        Arg2: to impose sanctions