Predicate: puzzle

puzzle: Frames file for 'puzzle' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison with 'surprise' and 'confuse'.

Roleset id: puzzle.01 , confuse, vncls: 31.4, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: cause, agent (vnrole: 31.4-Cause)
        Arg1: entity experiencing confusion (vnrole: 31.4-Experiencer)
        Arg2: confused about or over what? (vnrole: 31.4-Theme)

Example: passive

        [Takeover stock traders]-1 were puzzled *trace*-1 by the Reliance
        filing.

        Rel: puzzled
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: by the Reliance filing

Example: passive

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

        ``Communism will reach its final stage of development in a
        feckless Russo-corporation -- socialist in form, nationalistic in
        content and Oriental in style -- that [*T*-1] will puzzle the
        world with alternating feats of realism and recklessness...''

        Arg0: [*T*-1]
        ArgM-RCL: that -> final stage of development
        ArgM-MOD: will
        Rel: puzzle
        Arg1: the world
        Arg2: with alternating feats of realism and recklessness