Roleset bless.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "bless":

Roles:

Arg0:entity giving blessing


Arg1:entity being blessed


Arg2:blessed with (gift)

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


straight transitive (-)
Jaguar shareholders would have *trace* to bless such a far-reaching accord.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Jaguar shareholders
REL:	bless
Arg1:	such a far-reaching accord

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


unstated blesser (-)
I have seen one or two men die, *trace* bless them.
Arg0:
REL:	bless
Arg1:	them

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


with gift (-)
Though I've been blessed *trace* with academic degrees and some success in the materialistic world, I've never forgotten or lost contact with those memories of the 1930s.
REL:	blessed
Arg1:	*trace* -> I
Arg2-with:	academic degrees and some success in the materialistic world

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


predicative gift (-)
To Mr. Engelken, it is also a story ``about love, because I'm blessed to have a wife who still thinks her slightly eccentric husband's 50th birthday deserves the ultimate present.''
Arg1:	I
REL:	blessed
Arg2:	to have a wife who still thinks her slightly eccentric husband's 50th birthday deserves the ultimate present

This verb doesn't fit easily into this class; arg2 is usually a role (applaud as or for) and the fact that the gift can only occur with a passivized verb is suspicious also. Perhaps the class needs to be split, or the membership reevaluated.