Predicate: eat
eat: Frames file for 'eat' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Verbnet entry 39.1, no other framed members. No comparison.
Roleset id: eat.01 , consume, vncls: 39.1, framnet: Ingestion
eat.01: Member of Vncls eat-39.1-1.
Roles:
Arg0: consumer, eater (vnrole: 39.1-agent)
Arg1: meal (vnrole: 39.1-patient)
Example: intransitive
TW's pitch was that sales and earnings at its restaurants have
risen steadily and that people-1 won't stop *trace*-1 eating during a
downturn.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: eating
Example: transitive
Euro Disneyland shares made a debut like Snow White yesterday
while most of the London stock market looked like it had eaten the
Evil Queen's poisoned apple.
Arg0: it
Rel: eaten
Arg1: the Evil Queen 's poisoned apple
Predicate: eat_up
Roleset id: eat.02 , consume fully, vncls: 39.1, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: consumer, eater (vnrole: 39.1-agent)
Arg1: meal (vnrole: 39.1-patient)
Example: only in transitive?
Some analysts argued that there won't be a flurry of takeovers
because the industry's continuing capacity-expansion program is
eating up available cash.
Arg0: the industry's continuing capacity-expansion program
Rel: [ eating] [ up]
Arg1: available cash
Predicate: eat_away
Roleset id: eat.03 , consume partially, vncls: 39.1, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: consumer, eater (vnrole: 39.1-agent)
Arg1: meal (vnrole: 39.1-patient)
Example: nominal meal
``Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios have eaten away sales normally
going to Kellogg's corn-based lines simply because they are made
of oats,'' says Merrill Lynch food analyst William Maguire.
Arg0: Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios
Rel: [ eaten] [ away]
Arg1: sales normally going to Kellogg's corn-based lines
Argm-cau: simply because they are made of oats
Example: prepositional meal
[Personal-computer makers]-1 will continue *trace*-1 to eat away at the
business of more traditional computer firms.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: [ eat] [ away]
Arg1: at the business of more traditional computer firms