Roleset tone.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "diminish intensity":

Roles:

Arg0:cause of diminishment, agent


Arg1:thing becoming less intense

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: perfect voice: active form: participle


the one example (-)
Shaken by tumbling stock prices and pessimistic projections of U.S. economic growth, currency analysts around the world have toned down their assessments of the dollar's near-term performance.
ArgM:	Shaken by tumbling stock prices and pessimistic projections of U.S. economic growth
Arg0:	currency analysts around the world
REL:	[ toned] [ down]
Arg1:	their assessments of the dollar's near-term performance