Predicate: magnify

Frames file for 'magnify' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. No comparison.

Roleset id: magnify.01 , make greater or bigger, vncls: 45.4

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of magnification
        Arg1: thing getting bigger/greater

Example: passivized

        A spokesman for the Stamford, Conn. based company said operations
        had a loss of $5.5 million for the quarter; in addition, [the loss]-1
        was magnified *trace*-1 by nonrecurring charges totaling $23.5
        million and $8.2 million in asset-valuation adjustments that he
        described as ``unusual.''

        ArgM-DIS : in addition
        Rel : magnified
        Arg1 : *trace*
        Arg0 : by nonrecurring charges totaling $23.5 million and $8.2 million in asset-valuation adjustments that he described as ``unusual