Predicate: protect

protect: Frames file for 'protect' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus.

Roleset id: protect.01 , shield from danger, vncls: 85, framnet: Protecting

protect.01: Member of Vncls defend-85.

Roles:

        The protector/instrument distinction largely comes down to intentionality. Instrumental subjects seem to be much more common.
        Arg0: protector (vnrole: 85-agent)
        Arg1: protected (vnrole: 85-theme)
        Arg2: danger (vnrole: 85-proposition)
        Arg3: instrument

Example: agentive subject and instrument

        Republicans-1 want *trace*-1 to protect the measure by combining it with
        two politically popular issues that Democrats would find hard to
        vote against.

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: protect
        Arg1: the measure
        Arg3: by combining it with two politically popular issues that Democrats would find hard to vote against.

Example: instrumental subject

        watch the traces to make sure that the trace in the subject position really links to the instrument. If it's a *PRO*, it might actually be arg0.
        Mr. Wilder introduced a bill [0]-2 *trace-2* to protect rape
        victims from unfounded interrogation.

        Arg3: *trace-2* (= [0])
        Argm-slc: [0] -> a bill
        Rel: protect
        Arg1: rape victims
        Arg2: from unfounded interrogation

Example: passivized

        [The information]-1 is protected *trace*-1 by attorney-client priviledge.

        Rel: protected
        Arg1: *trace*-1
        Arg3: by attorney-client priviledge