Roleset wane.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "diminish":

Roles:

Arg1:thing waning

Examples:

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


only unaccusative (-)
But interest waned as the day wore on and investors looked ahead to the release later this week of two important economic reports.
ArgM-DIS:	But
Arg1:	interest
REL:	waned
ArgM-TMP:	as the day wore on and investors looked ahead to the release later this week of two important economic reports

Diminish takes agent, EXT, start and end points. These probably will never occur with wane. Historically, "make wan" where "wan" is "pale" or "weak". Cool.