Predicate: forecast

forecast: Frames file for 'forecast' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison to 'predict'.

Roleset id: forecast.01 , tell the future, vncls: , framnet:

forecast.01: In the latter example there really should be a trace in object position, but treebank didn't put it there.

Roles:

        Arg0: fortune teller
        Arg1: prediction

Example: transitive

        The company forecast that fourth-quarter income from continuing
        operations would be ``significantly'' lower than a year earlier.

        Arg0: The company
        Rel: forecast
        Arg1: that fourth-quarter income from continuing operations would be ``significantly'' lower than a year earlier

Example: missing object

        Saab's problems were underscored Friday when the company announced
        that its car division had a 1.2 billion kronor ($186.1 million)
        loss during the first eight months of this year, slightly worse
        than Saab-Scania had forecast in its first-half report last
        month.

        Arg0: Saab-Scania
        Rel: forecast
        Argm-loc: in its first-half report
        Argm-tmp: last month