Predicate: enhance
enhance: Frames file for 'enhance' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
No Verbnet entry. No comparison.
Roleset id: enhance.01 , make seem greater, vncls: 45.4, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: causer of greatness, agent (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
Arg1: thing enhanced (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)
Arg2: instrument (vnrole: 45.4-Instrument)
Arg3: enhanced by how much, EXT or MNR
Example: agentive transitive
Courtaulds-1 has been under pressure *trace*-1 to enhance shareholder
value since takeover speculators -- including Australian financier
Kerry Packer -- surfaced holding small stakes last year.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: enhance
Arg1: shareholder value
Example: instrumental subject
In a statement, Arnold B. McKinnon, chairman and chief executive
officer, noted that [the new repurchase program]-1 ``should serve
*trace*-1 to enhance shareholder value.''
Arg2: *trace*
Rel: enhance
Arg1: shareholder value
Example: passivized instrumental subject
[The quarter-to-quarter comparison]-1 was also enhanced *trace*-1 by
charges taken in the year-earlier period, including $11 million
related to the modernization of a pulp and newsprint mill in
Alabama.
ArgM-DIS: also
Rel: enhanced
Arg1: *trace*
Arg2: by charges taken in the year-earlier period,
including $11 million related to the modernization of a pulp
and newsprint mill in Alabama
Example: with extent PP
The company estimated that the transaction would enhance its book
value by more than $100 million.
Arg2: the transaction
Rel: enhance
Arg1: its book value
Arg3: by more than $ 100 million
Example: with agent and instrument
John enhanced his reputation as a smooth operator by throwing
rocks at Mary's mailbox.
Arg0: John
Rel: enhanced
Arg1: his reputation as a smooth operator
Arg2: by throwing rocks at Mary's mailbox.