Predicate: dilute

dilute: Frames file for 'dilute' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. Comparison with 'weaken'.

Roleset id: dilute.01 , water down, make weaker, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

dilute.01: There's some financial usage of "fully diluted stocks" which I don't understand, but which is clearly adjectival and thus can be ignored.

Roles:

        Arg0: causal agent (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: thing weakening (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)
        Arg2: EXT
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point
        Arg5: instrument (vnrole: 45.4-Instrument)

Example: just transitive

        Mr. Hahn said Georgia-Pacific has accounted in its strategy for a
        ``significant downturn'' in the pulp and paper industry, an event
        that he said *trace* would temporarily dilute earnings.

        Arg0: *trace*
        ArgM-RCL: that -> an event
        ArgM-MOD: would
        ArgM-TMP: temporarily
        Rel: dilute
        Arg1: earnings

Example: with extent

        William O. McCoy, president of the company's BellSouth Enterprises
        Inc. unit, said the revised agreement with LIN would dilute
        BellSouth earnings by about 9% in both 1990 and 1991.

        Arg0: the revised agreement with LIN
        ArgM-MOD: would
        Rel: dilute
        Arg1: BellSouth earnings
        Arg2: by about 9%
        ArgM-TMP: in both 1990 and 1991

Example: with instrument

        John diluted the perfectly aged Bordeaux with Mad Dog.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: diluted
        Arg1: the perfectly aged Bordeaux
        Arg5: with Mad Dog