Predicate: amplify

amplify: Frames file for 'amplify' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: amplify.01 , make louder or greater, vncls: 45.4 37.12, framnet: -

amplify.01: VN updated by Julia. Member of Vncls overstate-37.12, other_cos-45.4. No Framenet entry. I'm hoping amplify does not appear in the "quantifiable motion" frame (ie rise).

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of becoming louder (vnrole: 45.4-agent, 37.12-agent)
        Arg1: thing becoming louder (vnrole: 45.4-patient, 37.12-theme)
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0 (vnrole: 45.4-instrument)

Example: transitive, passivized

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: passive,  form: participle

        Moreover, [the price volatility]-3 that *trace* is amplified *trace*-3
        by program trading is undercutting efforts to woo individual
        investors back to an OTC market that sorely misses them.

        Rel: amplified
        Arg1: *trace*-3 (= *trace* = that)
        Argm-slc: that -> the price volatility
        Arg0: by program trading

Example: with instrument

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

        John amplified his voice with a rolled-up piece of newspaper.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: amplified
        Arg1: his voice
        Arg2: with a rolled-up piece of newspaper