Frameset

Predicate nose-dive:

Frames file for 'nose-dive' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, no Framenet entry. Comparison with 'fall'.

Roleset nose-dive.01 "fall very fast":

Roles:

Arg1:Logical subject, patient, thing falling

Arg2:EXT, amount fallen

Arg3:start point

Arg4:end point, end state of arg1

ArgM-LOC:medium

Examples:

past

active

full

another verb of quantifiable motion, you know the drill (-)
`Compaq Computer nose-dived $8.625 a share, to $100, and pulled other technology issues lower after reporting lower-than-expected earnings after the stock market closed Wednesday.`
Arg1:	Compaq Computer
REL:	nose-dived
Arg2-EXT:	$8.625 a share
Arg4-to:	$100

Note that "nose-dived" is a confirmation of the lexicalist hypothesis and Blocking--most people would say the past tense of "dived" is "dove", but "nose-dive" is apparently no longer associated with "dive" and thus does not take the irregular past tense. Cool.