Rolesets - preoccupy

preoccupy

preoccupy.01 - demand full attention

PREOCCUPY-V NOTES: Frames file for 'preoccupy' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 31.1 (from preoccupy.01-v predicate notes)
PREOCCUPATION-N NOTES: preoccupy.01 (from preoccupation.01-n)
To my ear, args 0 and 2 cannot cooccur, but the prepositional usage ofarg2 does imply that the two are separate arguments. (from preoccupy.01-v)

Aliases:

preoccupy (v.)
preoccupation (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: causer of preoccupation
ARG1-PPT: preoccupied entity
ARG2-GOL: focus of attention

usually passive

Worst of allARGM-DIS
,
NissanARG1
was
preoccupiedrel
with management infighting , cronyism and corporate rigidityARG2
.

occasionally active

Foreign exchange dealers said that the currency market has begun to distance itself from
the volatile stock exchangeARG0
,
whichR-ARG0
has
preoccupiedrel
the marketARG1
since Oct. 13 , when the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 190 pointsARGM-TMP
.

Arg1,2

At last the Archbishop of Canterbury is moving out of
hisARG1
preoccupationrel
with papalizing the AnglicansARG2
and being a voice for the poor .