Predicate: accelerate
accelerate: Frames file for 'accelerate' based on sentences in financial subcorpus
and automatic expansion via verbnet.
Roleset id: accelerate.01 , make be faster, vncls: 45.4, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: agent, causing acceleration (vnrole: 45.4-agent)
Arg1: thing accelerating (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
Arg2: EXT
Arg3: start point
Arg4: end point
Example: ergative, no other args
person: third, tense: present, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
That's up from about 687 a month in 1985, and it's accelerating:
So far this month, foreclosures are averaging about 85 a day.
Arg1: it
Rel: accelerating
Example: with start point
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
The stock's decline accelerated in the past two weeks, from a
price of $8 a share on Oct. 9.
Arg1: The stock's decline
Rel: accelerated
Argm-tmp: in the past two weeks
Arg3: from a price of $8 a share on Oct. 9
Example: with adverbial extent
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
The size and pace of disbursements will accelerate further under
the Brady Plan, which promises larger and earlier disbursements to
approved countries.
Arg1: The size and pace of disbursements
Argm-mod: will
Rel: accelerate
Arg2: further
Argm-loc: under the Brady Plan, which promises larger and earlier disbursements to approved countries
Example: with agent
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Earlier this month, Staples Inc., a Newton, Mass., office-supplies
discounter, said it would accelerate expansion plans nationwide
and offer more of its stock to the public.
Arg0: it
Argm-mod: would
Rel: accelerate
Arg1: expansion plans
Argm-loc: nationwide
Example: with end point
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Final-hour trading accelerated to 108.1 million shares, a record
for the Big Board.
Arg1: Final-hour trading
Rel: accelerated
Arg4: to 108.1 million shares, a record for the Big Board