Roleset devalue.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to lessen the value of":

Roles:

Arg0:causer of lower value, agent


Arg1:thing with lower value

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


transitive (-)
China might stave off a crisis if it acts as forcefully as it did [*-1] to arrest the 1985 decline , when Beijing slammed the brakes on foreign-exchange spending and devalued the currency [*T*-2] .
Arg0:	Beijing
REL:	devalued
Arg1:	the currency
ArgM-TMP:	[*T*-2] -> when -> the 1985 decline