Predicate: benefit

benefit: Frames file for 'benefit' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. No comparison.

Roleset id: benefit.01 , give advantage to, vncls: , framnet:

benefit.01: The "benefited from" construction is by far the more common, but it seems right to leave the "entity benefiting" in the Arg1/"patient" position, even if this means having many Arg0-from annotations.

Roles:

        Arg0: giver
        Arg1: benefactive, given-to

Example: normal order

        Mr. Edelman declined to specify what prompted the recent moves,
        saying [they]-1 are meant only *trace*-1 to benefit shareholders when
        ``the company is on a roll.''

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: benefit
        Arg1: shareholders
        ArgM-TMP: when ``the company is on a roll

Example: agent in PP

        The Continental Baking business benefited from higher margins on
        bread and on increased cake sales, it added.

        Arg1: The Continental Baking business
        Rel: benefited
        Arg0: from higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales