Predicate: predict

predict: Frames file for 'predict' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No verbnet class. Loose comparison with verbs of saying.

Roleset id: predict.01 , tell the future, vncls: 78, framnet:

predict.01: Corresponds to VN class indicate-78.

Roles:

        Arg0: fortune teller (vnrole: 78-cause)
        Arg1: prediction (vnrole: 78-topic)

Example: prediction as utterance

        He predicted that the board would give the current duo until early
        next year before naming a new chief executive.

        Arg0: He
        Rel: predicted
        Arg1: that the board would give the current duo until early next year before naming a new chief executive

Example: prediction as noun phrase

        Analysts were predicting 1990 BellSouth earnings in the range of
        $3.90 a share, or $1.9 billion, but now those estimates are being
        scaled back.

        Arg0: Analysts
        Rel: predicting
        Arg1: 1990 BellSouth earnings in the range of $3.90 a share, or $1.9 billion