Frameset

Predicate heighten:

Frames file for 'heighten' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 45.4 along with all the other causatives.

Roleset heighten.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "make higher":

Roles:

Arg0:causal agent

Arg1:thing becoming higher

Examples:

agentive (-)
`The move is sure trace to heighten concerns about increased Japanese investment in U.S. biotechnology firms.`
Arg0:	trace -> The move
REL:	heighten
Arg1:	concerns about increased Japanese investment in U.S. biotechnology firms

ergative (-)
CenTrust Savings Bank said federal thrift regulators ordered it to suspend dividend payments on its two classes of preferred stock, indicating that regulators' concerns about the troubled institution have heightened.

Arg1: regulators' concerns about the troubled institution

REL: heightened

ergative (-)
`CenTrust Savings Bank said federal thrift regulators ordered it to suspend dividend payments on its two classes of preferred stock, indicating that regulators' concerns about the troubled institution have heightened.`
Arg1:	regulators' concerns about the troubled institution
REL:	heightened

This picks up a lot of adjectival usages like "there are heightened concerns about blah". Ignore these for the time being.