Frameset

Predicate reassure:

Frames file for 'reassure' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 31.1 with members like: comfort, convince, encourage, interest, scare, shock, spook, threaten and worry. Comparison with 'assure'.

Roleset reassure.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "calm someone's nerves (again)":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of assurance

Arg1:assured one

Arg2:assurance, utterance

Examples:

transitive (-)
`Moreover, such a sale could help Armstrong reassure its investors and deter the Belzbergs, who own a 9.85% stake in the Lancaster, Pa., company.`
Arg0:	Armstrong
REL:	reassure
Arg1:	its investors

passivized (-)
``We were reassured they would stand behind the company.''

Arg1: We

REL: reassured

Arg2: they would stand behind the company

passivized (-)
``We were reassured they would stand behind the company.''
Arg1:	We
REL:	reassured
Arg2:	they would stand behind the company

Properly there should be a trace between 'reassure' and the utterance, but treebank forgot to put that in.