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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="reassure">
<note>
  Frames file for 'reassure' based on sentences in financial
  subcorpus.  Verbnet entry 31.1 with members like: comfort, convince,
  encourage, interest, scare, shock, spook, threaten and worry.
  Comparison with 'assure'.
</note>

<roleset id="reassure.01" name="calm someone's nerves (again)" vncls="31.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="causer of assurance" n="0">
	  <vnrole vncls="31.1" vntheta="Cause"/></role>
  <role descr="assured one" n="1">
	  <vnrole vncls="31.1" vntheta="Experiencer"/></role>
  <role descr="assurance, utterance" n="2"/>
</roles>

<example name="transitive">
<text>
    Moreover, such a sale could help Armstrong reassure its investors
    and deter the Belzbergs, who own a 9.85% stake in the Lancaster,
    Pa., company. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">Armstrong</arg>
        <rel>reassure</rel>
        <arg n="1">its investors</arg>
</example>


<example name="passivized">
<text>
    ``We were reassured they would stand behind the company.''
</text>
        <arg n="1">We</arg>
        <rel>reassured</rel>
        <arg n="2">they would stand behind the company</arg>
</example>

<note>
Properly there should be a trace between 'reassure' and the utterance,
but treebank forgot to put that in.
</note>

</roleset>
</predicate>
</frameset>
