Predicate: impress

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

Roleset id: impress.01 , make an impression, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

impress.01: Reserve use of arg2 for only those cases where there's also a stated subject (arg0). Otherwise the agent/instrument distinction gets impossible.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, thing making an impress (vnrole: 31.1-cause)
        Arg1: thing impressed (vnrole: 31.1-experiencer)
        Arg2: instrument or manner

Example: oddly intransitive

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

        Some shows just don't impress, he says, and this is one of them.

        Arg0: Some shows
        Argm-dis: just
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: impress

Example: simple transitive

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

        That impressed Robert B. Pamplin, Georgia-Pacific's chief
        executive at the time, whom Mr. Hahn had met while fundraising for
        the institute.

        Arg0: That
        Rel: impressed
        Arg1: Robert B. Pamplin, Georgia-Pacific's chief executive at the time, whom Mr. Hahn had met while fundraising for the institute

Example: passive with 'with'

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

        Michael Burns, president of Telesystems, says his concern has only
        benefited from the publicity surrounding the case, noting that
        three other charities have signed on as clients because they-1 were
        impressed *trace*-1 with the amount he raised for National
        Children's.

        Rel: impressed
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: with the amount he raised for National Children's

Example: with instrument

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

        [Messrs. Guber and Peters]-1 assiduously courted the man's widow for
        months, *trace*-1 showing her a tape of ``Gorillas in the Mist'' *trace*-1 to
        impress her with the quality of their work.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: impress
        Arg1: her
        Arg2: with the quality of their work

Roleset id: impress.02 , convince of importance, vncls: 31.1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: agent of convincing (vnrole: 31.1-cause)
        Arg1: entity convinced (vnrole: 31.1-experiencer)
        Arg2: proposition

Example: impress on

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

        ``It impresses on ordinary, young Filipinos that there's nothing
        to feel inferior about in using their own language,'' says Randy
        David, a sociologist and host of a popular television talk show.

        Arg0: It
        Rel: impresses
        Arg1: on ordinary , young Filipinos
        Arg2: that there's nothing to feel inferior about in using their own language