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

<roleset id="tear.01" name="to pull apart, separate forcefully" vncls="23.2 45.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="puller, tearer, separator, agent" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="23.2" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="45.1" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="thing torn" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="23.2" vntheta="Patient1"/>
        <vnrole vncls="45.1" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
  <role descr="torn between/from/out" n="2">
	<vnrole vncls="23.2" vntheta="Patient2"/></role>
</roles>


<example name="torn out">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="present" voice="passive"/>
<text>
 Republican Sen. William Cohen of Maine , the panel 's vice chairman , said of the disclosure that `` a text torn [*] out of context is a pretext , and it [*EXP*-2] is unfair for those in the White House who [*T*-1] are leaking to present the evidence in a selective fashion . ''
</text>
	<rel>torn</rel>
	<arg n="1">[*] -&gt;  a text</arg>
	<arg n="2">out of context</arg>
</example>


<example name="torn between">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="ns" voice="passive"/>
<text>
 Further , the Herald seemed [*-1] torn editorially between [*-3] keeping its old-time Hearst readership -- blue-collar and sports-oriented -- and trying [*-2] to provide a sprightly , upscale alternative to the sometimes staid Times .
</text>
	<arg n="1">[*-1] -&gt;  the Herald</arg>
	<rel>torn</rel>
	<arg f="MNR" n="M">editorially</arg>
	<arg f="between" n="2">[*-3] keeping its old-time Hearst readership -- blue-collar and sports-oriented -- and trying [*-2] to provide a sprightly , upscale alternative to the sometimes staid Times</arg>
</example>


<example name="with direction">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="past" voice="passive"/>
<text>
 With Garpian randomness , a hotel across the street , the Amfac , had been hit [*-1] harder : A large sheet of its concrete facade and several window balconies were torn [*-2] away .
</text>
	<rel>torn</rel>
	<arg n="1">[*-2] -&gt;  A large sheet of its concrete facade and several window balconies</arg>
	<arg f="DIR" n="M">away</arg>
</example>


</roleset>

<roleset id="tear.02" name="to rush, move hurriedly" vncls="51.3.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="entity rushing" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="51.3.2" vntheta="Theme"/></role>
  <role descr="direction/location" n="1">
        <vnrole vncls="51.3.2" vntheta="Location"/></role>
</roles>



<example name="tear through">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="full" person="ns" tense="past" voice="active"/>
<text>
 A series of explosions tore through the huge Phillips Petroleum Co. plastics plant near here , [*] injuring more than a hundred and closing parts of the Houston Ship Channel .
</text>
	<arg n="0">A series of explosions</arg>
	<rel>tore</rel>
	<arg f="through" n="1">the huge Phillips Petroleum Co. plastics plant near here</arg>
	<arg f="ADV" n="M">[*] injuring more than a hundred and closing parts of the Houston Ship Channel</arg>
</example>


</roleset>


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="tear_up">


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="tear_down">


</predicate>


</frameset>
