Roleset torment.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "cause anguish":

Roles:

Arg0:tormenter


Arg1:tormented


Arg2:instrument

Examples:

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


just transitive (-)
They concede that much of the government meddling that [*T*-1] torments them is essential to the public good, and even to their own businesses.
Arg0:	[*T*-1] -> that -> much of the government meddling
REL:	torments
Arg1:	them

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


with instrument (-)
Far from being minimalist, the music unabatingly torments us with apparent novelties not so cleverly disguised in the simplicities of 4/4 time, octave intervals, and ragtime or gospel chord progressions.
ArgM-ADV:	Far from being minimalist
Arg0:	the music
ArgM-MNR:	unabatingly
REL:	torments
Arg1:	us
Arg2-with:	apparent novelties not so cleverly disguised in the simplicities of 4/4 time, octave intervals, and ragtime or gospel chord progressions