Frameset - nosedive-v

Predicate: nosedive

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

Roleset id: nosedive.01 , fall very fast, vncls: , framnet:

nosedive.01: Note that "nosedived" is a confirmation of the lexicalist hypothesis and Blocking--most people would say the past tense of "dived" is "dove", but "nosedive" 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: nosedived
        Arg2: $8.625 a share
        Arg4: to $100