Predicate: assure

Roleset id: assure.01 , calm someone's nerves, pledge, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

assure.01: ASSURE-V NOTES: Verbal usage based on financial subcorpus. Adjectival 'assured' based on BOLT-6. Member of Vncls ensure-99, advise-37.9, promise-37.13. (from assure.01-v) ASSURANCE-N NOTES: Added due to expansion of Nombank. Comparison to assure.01. VN classes advise-37.9, ensure-99, and promise-37.13. FN class telling. Framed by Katie. (from assurance.01-n) ASSURED-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from assured.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
assurance (n.)telling
assured (j.)
assure (v.)Telling Likelihood

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: causer of assurance (vnrole: 37.9-agent, 37.13-agent, 99-cause)
        Arg1-GOL: assured one (vnrole: 37.9-recipient, 37.13-recipient, 99-beneficiary)
        Arg2-PPT: assurance, utterance (vnrole: 37.9-topic, 37.13-topic, 99-theme)

Example: all args

        A spokesman for AMR Corp. said Boeing has assured American Airlines it will deliver a 757 on time later this month.

        Arg0: Boeing
        Rel: assured
        Arg1: American Airlines
        Arg2: it will deliver a 757 on time later this month

Example: passivized

        They also worry that if the government applies asset-forfeiture laws broadly, the best defense lawyers will be unwilling to take criminal cases unless they-1 are assured *trace*-1 of being paid.

        Rel: assured
        Arg1: *trace*-1 (= they)
        Arg2: of being paid

Example: almost adjectival (TB called this a verb)

        It was in Jaguar's best interests ``for [the company's future]-1 to be assured *trace*-1 and the present climate of uncertainty resolved as quickly as possible,'' Mr. Ridley said.

        Rel: assured
        Arg2: *trace*-1

Example: Adjectival rel: assured

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

        The more aircraft carrier fleets China has in the future , the more convincing of China 's peaceful rise . It will be even more convincing and world peace will be more assured if we have 25 aircraft carrier fleets !

        Arg2: world peace
        Argm-mod: will
        Argm-ext: more
        Rel: assured
        Argm-adv: if we have 25 aircraft carrier fleets

Example: Arg 2 as a rel clause

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

        an assurance that you would exonerate Libby

        Rel: assurance
        Arg2: that you would exonerate Libby

Example: arg 2 as a modifier

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

        security assurance

        Arg2: security
        Rel: assurance

Example: Arg 0

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

        Mr. Shevardnadze's assurance [*ich-1*] last year [that Krasnoyarsk didn't violate the ABM treaty -1]

        Arg0: Mr. Shevardnadze's
        Rel: assurance
        Arg2: [*ich-1*]
        Argm-tmp: last year

Example: arg 0 and 2

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

        the assurance from government rate setters of available funds adequate for safe operation

        Rel: assurance
        Arg0: from government rate setters
        Arg2: of available funds adequate for safe operation