Predicate: double
double: Frames file for 'double' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
No access to verbnet. Comparison to 'rise'.
Roleset id: double.01 , rise twofold, vncls: 45.4, framnet:
double.01: Note the ADV tagging of modifiers such as "almost" or "more than".
Roles:
Arg0: causer of increase (vnrole: 45.4-agent)
Arg1: thing increasing, rising (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
Arg2: attribute of arg 1
Arg3: start point
Arg4: end point
Example: just transitive
One person familiar with Georgia-Pacific said the acquisition
would more than double the company's debt of almost $3 billion.
Arg0: the acquisition
Argm-mod: would
Argm-adv: more than
Rel: double
Arg1: the company's debt of almost $3 billion
Example: with end point
That purchase doubled Quebecor's annual printing revenue to $750
million.
Arg0: That purchase
Rel: doubled
Arg1: Quebecor's annual printing revenue
Arg4: to $750 million
Example: start and end points, ergative
Genentech Inc. said third-quarter profit more than doubled to
$11.4 million, or 13 cents a share, from a depressed 1988
third-quarter performance of $5.3 million, or six cents a share.
Arg1: third-quarter profit
Argm-adv: more than
Rel: doubled
Arg4: to $11.4 million, or 13 cents a share,
Arg3: from a depressed 1988 third-quarter performance of $5.3 million, or six cents a share
Example: With Attribute
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
Coffee doubled in price.
Arg1: Coffee
Rel: doubled
Arg2: in price
Roleset id: double.02 , act, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: actor
Arg1: role
Example: double agent
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
One expert, whose job is so politically sensitive that he spoke on
condition that he wouldn't be named, said the expected influx of
East European refugees over the next few years will greatly
increase the number of computer-maintenance workers, for example,
doubling as foreign spies.
Arg0: computer-maintenance workers
Argm-dis: for example
Rel: doubling
Arg1: as foreign spies