placate
placate.01 - cause to be happy
PLACATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'placate' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 31.1, other framed members include comfort, convince, depress, encourage, entice, exhaust, interest, reassure, repel, scare, shock, spook, threaten, and worry, probably among others. Framenet entry Experiencer_obj. Comparison with comfort. (from placate.01-v predicate notes)Aliases:
placate (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: causer
ARG1-PPT: patient, made happy
ARG2-MNR: instrument or manner
ARG1-PPT: patient, made happy
ARG2-MNR: instrument or manner
just transitive
The debt , estimated at $ 4.7 billionARG0
, could mortgage the cellular company 's future earning power in order to placaterel
some LIN holdersARG1
in the short termARGM-TMP
.ARG0 and ARG1
Vojislav Kostunica is meeting with his team today with the goal of getting rid of as many old faces as possible while
placatingrel
those still loyal to ousted leader Slobodan MilosevicARG1
.