Predicate: scale
scale: Frames file for 'scale' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Roleset id: scale.01 , change size, vncls: , framnet: -
scale.01: No Vncls.
Roles:
I'd prefer to not view "scale back" or "scale up" as phrasal verbs
because except for the particles the meanings and PAS's are identical.
Arg0: agent, entity causing change in size
Arg1: thing changing size
Arg2: EXT, amount changed by
Arg3: start point
Arg4: end point
Arg5: direction, up or back
Example: passive with start point and direction
[The size of the issue]-1 was scaled *trace*-1 back from an originally
planned $350 million.
Rel: scaled
Arg1: *trace*
Arg5: back
Arg3: from an originally planned $ 350 million
Example: active, ext, dir
John scaled his expectations up dramatically after Mary told
him she didn't completely hate him.
Arg0: John
Rel: scaled
Arg1: his expectations
Arg5: up
Arg2: dramatically
Argm-tmp: after Mary told him she didn't completely hate him
Roleset id: scale.02 , remove scales from a fish, vncls: 10.7, framnet: -
scale.02: Member of Vncls pit-10.7.
Roles:
Arg0: remover (vnrole: 10.7-agent)
Arg1: fish (vnrole: 10.7-source)
Arg2: instrument
Example: Eeeeewwww
John scaled the fish with a chainsaw.
Arg0: John
Rel: scaled
Arg1: the fish
Arg2: with a chainsaw
Roleset id: scale.03 , climb, as a cliff, vncls: , framnet: -
scale.03: No Vncls.
Roles:
Arg0: climber
Arg1: cliff
Example: metaphorical cliffs
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Where '60s dropouts professed to scorn middle-class life and
ambitious yuppies hoped to leave it far behind as they scaled the
upper reaches of success, it now seems that so many people feel
they're slipping between the cracks, that middle-class life is
viewed with nostalgia or outright longing.
Arg0: they
Rel: scaled
Arg1: the upper reaches of success