Frameset - liberalize-v

Predicate: liberalize

liberalize: Frames file for 'liberalize' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry.

Roleset id: liberalize.01 , become more liberal, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

Arg0: agent of liberalization
Arg1: thing becoming more liberal (if separate from arg0)

Example: usually transitive

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

        At a June EC summit, Mrs. Thatcher appeared to ease her opposition
        to full EMS membership, saying Britain would join once its
        inflation rate fell and the EC liberalized capital movements.

        Arg0: the EC
        Rel: liberalized
        Arg1: capital movements

Example: oddly intransitive

        Arg1 defaults to 'itself' or some such.
        person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive

        Asked if [the Soviets]-1, like Chinese officials, won't one day face
        a similar conflict between the desire *trace*-1 to liberalize
        economically and yet retain political control, Mr. Lee said, ``I
        would think that the Soviets face a deeper dilemma because they
        have been more in blinkers than the Chinese -- I mean keeping
        their people cut off from the outside world.''

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: liberalize
        ArgM-MNR: economically

Example: passive

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

        [The market for export financing]-1 was liberalized *trace*-1 in the
        mid-1980s, however, forcing the bank to face competition.

        Rel: liberalized
        Arg1: *trace*
        ArgM-TMP: in the mid-1980s
        ArgM-DIS: however
        ArgM-ADV: forcing the bank to face competition