Predicate: modernize

modernize: Frames file for 'modernize' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. No comparison.

Roleset id: modernize.01 , make more up-to-date, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

modernize.01: Seems to always occur in the infinitive, so be careful of where traces point to. An instrument arg is possible but I doubt it would actually appear.

Roles:

        Arg0: modernizer (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: thing being modernized (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)

Example: transitive

        At the same time, steelmakers-1 are trying *trace*-1 to invest more
        *trace*-1 to modernize technology and make themselves more
        competitive.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: modernize
        Arg1: technology