Predicate: torment

Roleset id: torment.01 , cause anguish, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

torment.01: TORMENT-V NOTES: Member of Vncls amuse-31.1. Checked by Julia, 10/2010. (from torment.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
torment (v.)Cause_to_experience Experiencer_obj

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: tormenter (vnrole: 31.1-stimulus)
        Arg1-PPT: tormented (vnrole: 31.1-experiencer)
        Arg2-MNR: instrument

Example: just transitive

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

        They concede that much of the government meddling that-1 [*T*-1] torments them is essential to the public good, and even to their own businesses.

        Arg0: [*T*-1] (= that)
        Argm-slc: that -> much of the government meddling
        Rel: torments
        Arg1: them

Example: with instrument

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

        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-prd: 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