Predicate: devalue

devalue: Frames file for 'devalue' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus.

Roleset id: devalue.01 , to lessen the value of, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of lower value, agent (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: thing with lower value (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)

Example: transitive

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

        China might stave off a crisis if it acts as forcefully as it did [*-1] to arrest the 1985 decline , when Beijing slammed the brakes on foreign-exchange spending and devalued the currency [*T*-2] .

        Arg0: Beijing
        Rel: devalued
        Arg1: the currency
        ArgM-TMP: [*T*-2]
        ArgM-RCL: when -> the 1985 decline