Predicate: upgrade
upgrade: Frames file for 'upgrade' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Roleset id: upgrade.01 , replace, vncls: , framnet:
upgrade.01: No Verbnet entry. Comparison with 'replace'.
Roles:
Arg0: replacer, agent
Arg1: old thing
Arg2: new thing
Example: all args
Edward M. Esber attributed the decline to reduced domestic revenue
because of $4.9 million spent *trace* [*] to upgrade existing software
inventories to the new database IV Version 1.1.
Arg0: [*]
Rel: upgrade
Arg1: existing software inventories
Arg2: to the new database IV Version 1.1
Roleset id: upgrade.02 , improve, vncls: 29.1, framnet: -
upgrade.02: The 'improve' sense is really the same as the 'replace' sense with the
two objective arguments merged.
Member of Vncls appoint-29.1.
Roles:
Arg0: cause of improvement, agent (vnrole: 29.1-agent)
Arg1: thing improving (vnrole: 29.1-theme)
Arg2: amount, EXT
Arg3: start point
Arg4: end point (vnrole: 29.1-predicate)
Example: transitive
Recently it upgraded its plants so that it could make
stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes.
Argm-tmp: Recently
Arg0: it
Rel: upgraded
Arg1: its plants
Argm-prp: so that it could make stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes
Example: with end state
person: third, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: participle
The airline upgraded John to firstclass after the airline attendant vomited on him.
Arg0: The airline
Rel: upgraded
Arg1: John
Arg4: to first class
Argm-tmp: after the airline attendant vomited on him.