Frameset - nose-dive-v

Predicate: nose-dive

nose-dive: Frames file for 'nose-dive' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, no Framenet entry. Comparison with 'fall'.

Roleset id: nose-dive.01 , fall very fast, vncls: , framnet:

nose-dive.01: Note that "nose-dived" is a confirmation of the lexicalist hypothesis and Blocking--most people would say the past tense of "dived" is "dove", but "nose-dive" is apparently no longer associated with "dive" and thus does not take the irregular past tense. Cool.

Roles:

        Arg1: Logical subject, patient, thing falling
        Arg2: EXT, amount fallen
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point, end state of arg1
        ArgM: medium

Example: another verb of quantifiable motion, you know the drill

        person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full

        Compaq Computer nose-dived $8.625 a share, to $100, and pulled
        other technology issues lower after reporting lower-than-expected
        earnings after the stock market closed Wednesday.

        Arg1: Compaq Computer
        Rel: nose-dived
        Arg2: $8.625 a share
        Arg4: to $100