Predicate: erode
erode: Frames file for 'erode' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Verbnet entries 47.2, 45.5. Many many members of the latter class
(general causatives). No Framenet entry. No comparison.
Roleset id: erode.01 , wear away by water or wind, vncls: 45.5 47.2, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: water or wind
Arg1: substance worn away (vnrole: 47.2-Theme, 45.5-Patient)
Example: ergative, with manner
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: full
He said many portfolio managers, whose year-end bonuses are tied
to annual performance, are selling now rather than risk seeing
their gains erode further.
Arg1: their gains
Rel: erode
ArgM-MNR: further
Example: agentive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: full
Such selling could erode prices of high-yield junk bonds, already
weakened by a rash of corporate credit problems.
Arg0: Such selling
ArgM-MOD: could
Rel: erode
Arg1: prices of high-yield junk bonds, already weakened
by a rash of corporate credit problems