Frameset - prop-v

Predicate: prop_up

prop_up: Frames file for 'prop up' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, no Framenet entry. Comparison with support.

Roleset id: prop.01 , support, hold upright, vncls: , framnet:

prop.01: I'm pretty sure this can only occur as 'prop up', although I have vague intuitions of 'prop open'. That will be treated exactly the same way, though.

Roles:

        Arg0: helper, prop
        Arg1: thing being held up
        Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0

Example: just transitive

        person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle

        Carried even further, some investors assumed that since
        leveraged buy-outs are the only thing propping up stock prices,
        the market would collapse if no more LBOs could be done.

        Arg0: the only thing
        Rel: [ propping] [ up]
        Arg1: stock prices

Example: with instrument

        person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle

        [John's self-esteem]-1 is propped *trace*-1 up with industrial-strength
        pharmaceuticals.

        Rel: [propped] [up]
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg2: with industrial-strength pharmaceuticals