Predicate: obligate

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

Roleset id: obligate.01 , impelled action, vncls: 59, framnet:

obligate.01: The only difference between 'oblige' and 'obligate' is that the latter can only occur in the passive. The former also prefers the passive, though.

Roles:

        Arg0: causal agent (vnrole: 59-agent)
        Arg1: obligated, impelled agent (vnrole: 59-patient)
        Arg2: obligation, impelled action (vnrole: 59-proposition)

Example: always passive

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

        Thus, [an institution]-1 obligated *trace*-1 to make fixed-rate interest
        payments on debt swaps the payments with another making
        floating-rate payments.

        Rel: obligated
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: to make fixed-rate interest payments on debt