Predicate: mollify
mollify: Frames file for 'mollify' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Verbnet entry 31.1, other framed members include comfort, convince,
depress, encourage, entice, exhaust, interest, reassure, repel,
scare, shock, spook, threaten, and worry, probably among others.
Framenet entry Experiencer_obj. Comparison with comfort.
Roleset id: mollify.01 , cause to be happy, vncls: 31.1, framnet:
mollify.01: I've always thought 'mollify' should also mean "make someone be
Molly", but that never seems to occur.
Roles:
Arg0: causer (vnrole: 31.1-Cause)
Arg1: patient, made happy (vnrole: 31.1-Experiencer)
Arg2: instrument or manner
Example: just transitive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
*trace*-1 To mollify shareholders concerned about the long-term
value of the company under the BellSouth-LIN agreement, BellSouth-1
also agreed to pay as much as $10 a share, or $540 million, if,
after five years, the trading value of the new cellular company
is n't as high as the value that shareholders would have realized
from the McCaw offer.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: mollify
Arg1: shareholders concerned about the long-term value
of the company under the BellSouth-LIN agreement