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

<roleset id="exonerate.01" name="to free from blame or a responsibility" vncls="10.6">
<roles>
  <role descr="freer from blame, agent" n="0">
        <vnrole vncls="10.6" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="entity exonerated" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="10.6" vntheta="Theme"/></role>
  <role descr="responsibility or blame" n="2"/>
</roles>

<example name="with Arg2-as">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
<text>
 They noted that studies completed [*] after the 1987 crash exonerated program trading as a source of volatility .
</text>
	<arg n="0">studies completed [*] after the 1987 crash</arg>
	<rel>exonerated</rel>
	<arg n="1">program trading</arg>
	<arg f="as" n="2">a source of volatility</arg>
</example>


<example name="with Arg-from">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="present" voice="active"/>
<text>
 Italian papers speculated [0] the briefcase contained papers either exonerating the Vatican bank from blame in the scandal , or showing that the bank , known [*] as the Istituto per le Opere di Religione , channeled funds to East bloc groups such as Solidarity in Poland .
</text>
	<arg n="0">papers</arg>
	<rel>exonerating</rel>
	<arg n="1">the Vatican bank</arg>
	<arg f="from" n="2">blame in the scandal</arg>
</example>



</roleset>
</predicate>


</frameset>
