Predicate: compare

Roleset id: compare.01 , compare, vncls: 22.2, framnet: Evaluative_comparison

compare.01: Based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison to 'match'. Member of VNcls amalgamate-22.2-2.

Roles:

        Arg0: entity making comparison (vnrole: 22.2-agent)
        Arg1: first item in comparison (vnrole: 22.2-patient1)
        Arg2: second item in comparison, usually prepositional (vnrole: 22.2-patient2)

Example: common financial usage

        DO NOT TAG--compare is being used as a preposition (or even a conjunction!) here. Only tag if there is a trace in the tree, as in the following two examples. You can tell it's not a verb because you can't add an adverb: "Apples compare well with oranges" but "*Apples are cheap, compared well to oranges."
        Transamerica said third-quarter gains were $10.2 million, compared
        with $6.4 million in the year earlier.

Example: compare with

        [October sales]-1, compared *trace*-1 with the previous month, ...

        Rel: compared
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: with the previous month

Example: compare to

        [The strength of the US bond market]-1 compared *trace*-1 to its foreign
        counterparts

        Rel: compared
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: to its foreign counterparts

Example: ergative compare with

        This compares with estimates that the US market is 4x as large as my house.

        Arg1: This
        Rel: compares
        Arg2: with estimates that the US market is 4x as large as my house.

Example: with locative

        Its price is compared between the futures market and the stock market

        Arg1: Its price
        Rel: compared
        Argm-loc: between the futures market and the stock market