Predicate: sustain

Roleset id: sustain.01 , continue, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sustain.01: SUSTAIN-V NOTES: Frames file for 'sustain' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison with 'continue'. (from sustain.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sustain (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: Intentional agent (often inanimate, though)
        Arg1-PPT: thing continuing

Example: keep on truckin'

        He predicted that the most popular growth companies will be those with ``some kind of unique product or franchise'' that makes [them]-1 appear able *trace*-1 to sustain their momentum.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: sustain
        Arg1: their momentum

Example: non agentive sustainer

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Treasury officials have been arguing for months that the dollar's strength was out of whack with economic fundamentals, threatening to extinguish the export boom that [*T*-1] has sustained manufacturers for several years.

        Arg0: [*T*-1]
        ArgM-RCL: that -> the export boom
        Rel: sustained
        Arg1: manufacturers
        Argm-TMP: for several years

Roleset id: sustain.02 , suffer (a loss), Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sustain.02: SUSTAIN-V NOTES: Frames file for 'sustain' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison with 'continue'. (from sustain.02-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sustain (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: entity suffering a loss
        Arg1-PPT: the loss

Example: oh, the tragedy

        Richard Rifenburgh, chairman and chief executive of the Longmont, Colo., disk-drive maker, also said [the company]-1 continued losing money in the third quarter and expects *trace*-1 to sustain further losses through the end of the year.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: sustain
        Arg1: further losses
        ArgM-TMP: through the end of the year


Predicate: sustainable

Roleset id: sustainable.03 , able to be continued, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sustainable.03: SUSTAINABLE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-7. Relation to 'sustain.01'. (from sustainable.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sustainable (j.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: agent
        Arg1-PPT: thing continuing

Example: arg1

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

        This is also an important reason why economists have warned that China 's current growth pattern is not sustainable .

        Arg1: China's current growth pattern
        Argm-neg: not
        Rel: sustainable

Roleset id: sustainable.04 , able to be suffered (losses), Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sustainable.04: SUSTAINABLE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-7. Relation to 'sustain.01'. (from sustainable.02-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sustainable (j.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: entity suffering a loss
        Arg1-PPT: the loss

Example: arg1

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

        Although these financial losses were sustainable, the reputational loss was not, and a bank's reputation is right up there with its bottom line.

        Arg1: these financial losses
        Rel: sustainable