Predicate
concede:
Frames file for 'concede' based on sentences in financial
subcorpus. Verbnet class future_having-13.3, but that's not a very
common sense.
Roleset concede.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "admit":
Roles:
Arg0:entity admitting something
Arg1:thing admitted, usually a proposition
Examples:
|
sentential thing arg1 (-) |
|---|
Reviewing the company's scrape with disaster, Mr. Price conceded it
had tried to do too much on its own.
|
| ArgM-ADV: | Reviewing the company's scrape with
disaster |
| Arg0: | Mr. Price |
| REL: | conceded |
| Arg1: | it had tried to do too much on its own |
|
nominal arg1, almost idiomatic (-) |
|---|
Because most businesses put market share above profitability, to
let a competitor's addition to capacity go unmatched is *trace* to
concede defeat.
|
| Arg0: | *trace* |
| REL: | concede |
| Arg1: | defeat |
This is essentially another verb of saying, so expect some of the same
constructions (fronted, split, etc) as in 'say' etc.