Frames file for 'predate' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet
entry, Framenet entry Relative time.
Roleset predate.01 "come before, temporally":
Roles:
Arg1:thing coming before
Arg2:thing coming after
Examples:
nice (-)
person: third
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
John C. Burton, an accounting professor at Columbia University's
Graduate School of Business, said ``there's a lot of emotion
involved in the name of an accounting firm with a long history and
with roots in England, where accounting predates the U.S.''