Predicate: taint
taint: Frames file for 'taint' based on sentences in financial subcorpus and
automatic expansion via verbnet.
Roleset id: taint.01 , contaminate, vncls: 9.8, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: cause/source of contamination (vnrole: 9.8-Agent)
Arg1: thing becoming contaminated (vnrole: 9.8-Destination)
Arg2: contaminant (vnrole: 9.8-Theme)
Example: note the instrument
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
According to department policy, prosecutors must make a strong
showing that lawyers' fees came from [assets]-1 tainted *trace*-1 by
illegal profits before any attempts at seizure are made.
Rel: tainted
Arg1: *trace*
Arg2: by illegal profits
Example: with contaminant
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John taints any room he enters with his foul stench.
Arg0: John
Rel: taints
Arg1: any room he enters
Arg2: with his foul stench
Example: transitive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: perfect, voice: active, form: participle
At stake was an $80,000 settlement involving who should pay what
share of cleanup costs at the site of a former gas station, where
underground fuel tanks had leaked and taintd the soil.
Arg0: underground fuel tanks
Rel: tainted
Arg1: the soil