Predicate: squeeze
squeeze: Frames file for 'squeeze' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Verbnet entries knead-26.5, wipe_manner-10.4.1, funnel-9.3; other
framed members include: beat, quash, shake, wind; trim; dump, push,
shake. No explicit comparison.
Roleset id: squeeze.01 , apply pressure to, vncls: 12-1-1 20-1, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: squeezer (vnrole: 12-1-1-agent, 20-1-agent)
Arg1: squozen (vnrole: 12-1-1-theme, 20-1-experiencer)
Example: transitive
Airlines also say their frequent-flier programs are squeezing
profits because awards are being redeemed at a heavier-than-normal
rate.
Arg0: their frequent-flier programs
Rel: squeezing
Arg1: profits
Argm-cau: because awards are being redeemed at a heavier-than-normal rate
Roleset id: squeeze.02 , extract or insert by means of pressure, vncls: 10.4.1-1 9.3-2-1, framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: squeezer (vnrole: 10.4.1-1-agent, 9.3-2-1-agent)
Arg1: extracted material (vnrole: 10.4.1-1-theme, 9.3-2-1-theme)
Arg2: source (vnrole: 10.4.1-1-source)
Arg3: destination, arg1 squeezed into what? (vnrole: 9.3-2-1-destination)
Example: squeeze out of
But it's hard *trace* to squeeze much profit out of the
personal-computer business these days, and the workstation market,
while important, is too small to rely on for much growth.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: squeeze
Arg1: much profit
Arg2: out of the personal-computer business
Argm-tmp: these days
Example: misparsed squeeze out of
Norman Berry, the creative executive who *trace* was apparently
squeezed out of Ogilvy & Mather in June, is returning to
Ogilvy's parent company, WPP Group PLC.
Arg1: *trace*
Argm-rcl: who -> the creative executive
Argm-adv: apparently
Rel: squeezed
Argm-dir: out
Arg2-of: Ogilvy & Mather
Argm-tmp: in June
Example: squeeze from
John can squeeze blood from turnips.
Arg0: John
Argm-mod: can
Rel: squeeze
Arg1: blood
Arg2: from turnips
Example: squeeze into
Dreadful tautological in/into there.
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: infinitive
``[Fast-food franchisers]-1 have managed [*-1] to squeeze in stores
into every corner available.''
Arg0: [*-1]
Rel: squeeze
Argm-dir: in
Arg1: stores
Arg2: into every corner available
Roleset id: squeeze.03 , reduce, vncls: , framnet:
squeeze.03: Sorta nasty compromise on the "down from" phrase.
Roles:
Arg0: Agent
Arg1: Logical subject, patient, thing falling
Arg2: EXT, amount fallen
Arg3: Start point
Arg4: End point, end state of arg1
Example: stupid stock reports again
These and other problems squeezed Federal's profit margins last
year to 8%, down from more than 13% annually in the first half of
the decade.
Arg0: These and other problems
Rel: squeezed
Arg1: Federal's profit margins last year
Arg4: to 8%
Argm-dir: down
Arg3: from more than 13% annually in the first half of the decade
Predicate: squeeze_out
Roleset id: squeeze.04 , extract or erradicate by means of pressure, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: squeezer
Arg1: extracted material
Arg2: source
Example: extract
This has squeezed out local productions and decimated file industries
in many coutnries, as well as * reducing cinema from an art-form to a
spectacle, from which viewers expect simply visual and auditory
entertainment *T*.
Arg0: This
Rel: [squeezed] [out]
Arg1: local productions
Example: erradicate
[Popular culture]-1 has encroached upon the realm of pure art and now
seems [*]-1 intent on * squeezing it out altogether.
Arg0: *
Arg1: it
Rel: [squeeze] [out]
Argm-adv: altogether