Frameset

Predicate float:

Frames file for 'float' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet classes modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 roll-51.3.1 run-51.3.2 slide-11.2-1; other framed members include: shake; charge, leap, roll, sneak, walk, wind; halt, roll. Comparison to 'roll' and 'wind'.

Roleset float.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "not sink in water":

Roles:

Arg0:causative agent

Arg1:thing floating

Arg2:benefactive

Examples:

ergative, with LOC (-)
`The second part, consisting of $100 million of senior subordinated floating-rate notes, was priced at 99 3/4 to float 4.25% above the three-month London interbank offered rate.`
Arg1:	trace -> trace -> The second part, consisting of $100 million of senior subordinated floating-rate notes
REL:	float
ArgM-LOC:	4.25% above the three-month London interbank offered rate

float as introduce (-)
One trial balloon *trace-1* Mr. Spiegel is said *trace-2* to have floated *trace-3* to investors: Columbia might be broken up, as Mellon Bank was split into a good bank and a bad bank.

Arg1: *trace-3* -> *trace-1* -> One trial balloon

Arg0: *trace-2* -> Mr. Spiegel

REL: floated

Arg2-to: investors

float as introduce (-)
`One trial balloon trace-1 Mr. Spiegel is said trace-2 to have floated trace-3 to investors: Columbia might be broken up, as Mellon Bank was split into a good bank and a bad bank.`
Arg1:	trace-3 -> trace-1 -> One trial balloon
Arg0:	trace-2 -> Mr. Spiegel
REL:	floated
Arg2-to:	investors

float-as-introduce might be properly pulled out as a separate roleset, but we'll leave them merged for the time being.