Frameset

Predicate forecast:

Frames file for 'forecast' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison to 'predict'.

Roleset forecast.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "tell the future":

Roles:

Arg0:fortune teller

Arg1:prediction

Examples:

transitive (-)
The company forecast that fourth-quarter income from continuing operations would be ``significantly'' lower than a year earlier.
Arg0:	The company
REL:	forecast
Arg1:	fourth-quarter income from continuing operations would be ``significantly'' lower than a year earlier

missing object (-)
Saab's problems were underscored Friday when the company announced that its car division had a 1.2 billion kronor ($186.1 million) loss during the first eight months of this year, slightly worse than Saab-Scania had forecast in its first-half report last month.

Arg0: Saab-Scania

REL: forecast

ArgM-LOC: in its first-half report

ArgM-TMP: last month

missing object (-)
`Saab's problems were underscored Friday when the company announced that its car division had a 1.2 billion kronor ($186.1 million) loss during the first eight months of this year, slightly worse than Saab-Scania had forecast in its first-half report last month.`
Arg0:	Saab-Scania
REL:	forecast
ArgM-LOC:	in its first-half report
ArgM-TMP:	last month

In the latter example there really should be a trace in object position, but treebank didn't put it there.