Predicate: offset

offset: Frames file for 'offset' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet, not that I think it'd be in there anyway. No comparison (not even to 'set').

Roleset id: offset.01 , balance out, lessen the impact of, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: intentional agent
        Arg1: thing whose impact we want to lessen
        Arg2: balanced by

Example: with agentive subject

        *trace*-1 To offset sluggish sales growth, companies-1 have been
        cutting staff, mostly through attrition, and slowing the
        growth in research and development spending.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: offset
        Arg1: sluggish sales growth

Example: instrumental subject

        Earnings at Xerox's financial-services operations actually rose
        slightly, but that was largely because capital gains at Crum &
        Forster offset Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to
        cover future payments.

        Arg2: capital gains at Crum & Forster
        Rel: offset
        Arg1: Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to cover future payments

Example: passivized instrumental subject

        [The charges]-1 are offset *trace*-1 in part by a gain from the sale of
        the company's construction division.

        Rel: offset
        Arg1: *trace*
        ArgM-MNR: in part
        Arg2: by a gain from the sale of the company's construction division