Predicate: underscore

underscore: Frames file for 'underscore' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: underscore.01 , emphasize, vncls: , framnet: -

underscore.01: No Verbnet entry. Comparison with 'emphasize'.

Roles:

        Arg0: emphasizer
        Arg1: utterance
        Arg2: hearer (rare)

Example: active

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

        The results underscore Sears's difficulties in implementing the
        ``everyday low pricing'' strategy that it adopted in March as part
        of a broad attempt to revive its retailing business.

        Arg0: The results
        Rel: underscore
        Arg1: Sears's difficulties in implementing the ``everyday low pricing'' strategy that it adopted in March as part of a broad attempt to revive its retailing business

Example: passive

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

        [Saab's problems]-1 were underscored *trace*-1 Friday when the company
        announced that its car division had a 1.2 billion kronor ($186.1
        million) loss during the first eight months of this year, slightly
        worse than Saab-Scania had forecast in its first-half report last
        month.

        Rel: underscored
        Arg1: *trace*
        Argm-tmp: Friday
        Argm-tmp: when the company announced that its car division had a 1.2 billion kronor ($186.1 million) loss during the first eight months of this year, slightly worse than Saab-Scania had forecast in its first-half report last month

Example: with hearer

        Mary underscored to John that he must never ever call her
        'Snoogie-wookums' in public.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: underscored
        Arg2: to John
        Arg1: that he must never ever call her 'Snoogie-wookums' in public.