Predicate: erode

Roleset id: erode.01 , wear away by water or wind, wearing away, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

erode.01: ERODE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'erode' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entries 45.5. Many many members of the latter class (general causatives). No Framenet entry. No comparison. (from erode.01-v predicate notes) EROSION-N NOTES: erode.01 (from erosion.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
erode (v.)
erosion (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: water or wind
        Arg1-PPT: substance worn away (vnrole: 45.5-patient)

Example: ergative, with manner

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: full

        He said many portfolio managers, whose year-end bonuses are tied to annual performance, are selling now rather than risk seeing their gains erode further.

        Arg1: their gains
        Rel: erode
        Argm-mnr: further

Example: agentive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: full

        Such selling could erode prices of high-yield junk bonds, already weakened by a rash of corporate credit problems.

        Arg0: Such selling
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: erode
        Arg1: prices of high-yield junk bonds, already weakened by a rash of corporate credit problems

Example: metaphorical erosion

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Socialism and its erosion of the American people.

        Arg0: its
        Rel: erosion
        Arg1: of the American people