Predicate: eat
Frames file for 'eat' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Verbnet entry 39.1, no other framed members. No comparison.
Roleset id: eat.01 , consume, vncls: 39.1
Roles:
Arg0: consumer, eater
Arg1: meal
Example: intransitive
TW's pitch was that sales and earnings at its restaurants have
risen steadily and that people-1 won't stop *trace*-1 eating during a
downturn.
Arg0 : *trace*
Rel : eating
Example: transitive
Euro Disneyland shares made a debut like Snow White yesterday
while most of the London stock market looked like it had eaten the
Evil Queen's poisoned apple.
Arg0 : it
Rel : eaten
Arg1 : the Evil Queen 's poisoned apple
Predicate: eat_up
Roleset id: eat.02 , consume fully, vncls: 39.1
Roles:
Arg0: consumer, eater
Arg1: meal
Example: only in transitive?
Some analysts argued that there won't be a flurry of takeovers
because the industry's continuing capacity-expansion program is
eating up available cash.
Arg0 : the industry's continuing capacity-expansion
program
Rel : [ eating] [ up]
Arg1 : available cash
Predicate: eat_away
Roleset id: eat.03 , consume partially, vncls: 39.1
Roles:
Arg0: consumer, eater
Arg1: meal
Example: nominal meal
``Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios have eaten away sales normally
going to Kellogg's corn-based lines simply because they are made
of oats,'' says Merrill Lynch food analyst William Maguire.
Arg0 : Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios
Rel : [ eaten] [ away]
Arg1 : sales normally going to Kellogg's corn-based lines
ArgM-CAU : simply because they are made of oats
Example: prepositional meal
[Personal-computer makers]-1 will continue *trace*-1 to eat away at the
business of more traditional computer firms.
Arg0 : *trace*
Rel : [ eat] [ away]
Arg1 : at the business of more traditional computer
firms