Predicate: sustain

sustain: Frames file for 'sustain' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison with 'continue'. These could perhaps be merged, since the syntax is the same, but I suspect an arg2 might be necessary for the 'continue' roleset.

Roleset id: sustain.01 , continue, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: Intentional agent (often inanimate, though)
        Arg1: thing continuing

Example: keep on truckin'

        He predicted that the most popular growth companies will be those
        with ``some kind of unique product or franchise'' that makes [them]-1
        appear able *trace*-1 to sustain their momentum.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: sustain
        Arg1: their momentum

Example: non agentive sustainer

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Treasury officials have been arguing for months that the dollar's
        strength was out of whack with economic fundamentals, threatening
        to extinguish the export boom that [*T*-1] has sustained
        manufacturers for several years.

        Arg0: [*T*-1]
        ArgM-RCL: that -> the export boom
        Rel: sustained
        Arg1: manufacturers
        Argm-TMP: for several years

Roleset id: sustain.02 , suffer (a loss), vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: entity suffering a loss
        Arg1: the loss

Example: oh, the tragedy

        Richard Rifenburgh, chairman and chief executive of the Longmont,
        Colo., disk-drive maker, also said [the company]-1 continued losing
        money in the third quarter and expects *trace*-1 to sustain further
        losses through the end of the year.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: sustain
        Arg1: further losses
        ArgM-TMP: through the end of the year