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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="vex">
<note>
  Frames file for 'vex' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
  corpus.  
</note>


<roleset id="vex.01" name="to annoy, bother" vncls="31.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="causer of emotion" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="31.1" vntheta="Cause"/></role>

  <role descr="experiencer" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="31.1" vntheta="Experiencer"/></role>

</roles>

<example name="passive">
<inflection aspect="ns" form="participle" person="ns" tense="past" voice="passive"/>
<text>
 The state agency was particularly vexed [*-1] to learn that the Rubens and a half-dozen other paintings listed [*] among the bank 's `` furniture and fixtures , '' were actually hanging in the chairman 's house .
</text>
	<arg n="1">The state agency</arg>
	<arg f="ADV" n="M">particularly</arg>
	<rel>vexed</rel>
	<arg n="0">[*-1] to learn that the Rubens and a half-dozen other paintings listed [*] among the bank 's `` furniture and fixtures , '' were actually hanging in the chairman 's house</arg>
</example>


</roleset>
</predicate>


</frameset>
