Frameset

Predicate benefit:

Frames file for 'benefit' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. No comparison.

Roleset benefit.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "give advantage to":

Roles:

Arg0:giver

Arg1:benefactive, given-to

Examples:

normal order (-)
Mr. Edelman declined to specify what prompted the recent moves, saying they are meant only trace to benefit shareholders when ``the company is on a roll.''
Arg0:	trace -> they
REL:	benefit
Arg1:	shareholders
ArgM-TMP:	when ``the company is on a roll

agent in PP (-)
The Continental Baking business benefited from higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales, it added.

Arg1: The Continental Baking business

REL: benefited

Arg0-from: higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales

agent in PP (-)
`The Continental Baking business benefited from higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales, it added.`
Arg1:	The Continental Baking business
REL:	benefited
Arg0-from:	higher margins on bread and on increased cake sales

The "benefited from" construction is by far the more common, but it seems right to leave the "entity benefiting" in the Arg1/"patient" position, even if this means having many Arg0-from annotations.