<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="blunt">
<note>
  Frames file for 'blunt' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
  corpus.
</note>

<roleset id="blunt.01" name="to make less effective" vncls="45.4">
<roles>
  <role descr="causer of bluntness, agent" n="0"><vnrole vncls="45.4" vntheta="Agent"/></role> 
  <role descr="entity becoming blunt" n="1"><vnrole vncls="45.4" vntheta="Patient"/></role> 
</roles>

<example name="transitive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
<text>
 Dr. Toseland , a toxicologist , said [0] he was preparing an article for a British forensic medical journal [*-2] raising the possibility that the deaths may have occurred after human insulin blunted critical warning signs indicating hypoglycemia , or low blood sugar , which [*T*-1] can kill diabetics .
</text>
	<arg n="0">human insulin</arg>
	<rel>blunted</rel>
	<arg n="1">critical warning signs indicating hypoglycemia , or low blood sugar , which [*T*-1] can kill diabetics</arg>
</example>


</roleset>
</predicate>


</frameset>
