Predicate: quadruple

quadruple: Frames file for 'quadruple' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison to 'rise'.

Roleset id: quadruple.01 , rise fourfold, vncls: 45.4, framnet:

quadruple.01: Note the ADV tagging of modifiers such as "almost" or "more than".

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of increase (vnrole: 45.4-Agent)
        Arg1: thing increasing, rising (vnrole: 45.4-Patient)
        Arg2: EXT, always unmentioned because it's 4x
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point

Example: just transitive

        One person familiar with Georgia-Pacific said the acquisition
        would more than quadruple the company's debt of almost $3 billion.

        Arg0: the acquisition
        ArgM-MOD: would
        ArgM-ADV: more than
        Rel: quadruple
        Arg1: the company's debt of almost $3 billion

Example: with end point

        That purchase quadrupled Quebecor's annual printing revenue to $750
        million.

        Arg0: That purchase
        Rel: quadrupled
        Arg1: Quebecor's annual printing revenue
        Arg4: to $750 million

Example: start and end points, ergative

        Genentech Inc. said third-quarter profit more than quadrupled to
        $11.4 million, or 13 cents a share, from a depressed 1988
        third-quarter performance of $5.3 million, or six cents a share.

        Arg1: third-quarter profit
        ArgM-ADV: more than
        Rel: quadrupled
        Arg4: to $11.4 million, or 13 cents a share,
        Arg3: from a depressed 1988 third-quarter performance of $5.3 million, or six cents a share