Rolesets - accelerate

accelerate

accelerate.01 - make be faster, the act of speeding up

ACCELERATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'accelerate' based on sentences in financial subcorpusand automatic expansion via verbnet. (from accelerate.01-v predicate notes)
ACCELERATION-N NOTES: Based on sentences in Bolt. Comparison to accelerate.01. Accelerate.01 is a member of VN class 45.4-other_cos. No FN class. Framed by Katie. (from acceleration.01-n)

Aliases:

accelerate (v.)
acceleration (n.)
accelerated (j.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: agent, causing acceleration
ARG1-PPT: thing accelerating
ARG2-EXT: EXT
ARG3-DIR: start point
ARG4-GOL: end point

accelerate-v: ergative, no other args

That 's up from about 687 a month in 1985 , and
itARG1
's
acceleratingrel
: So far this month , foreclosures are averaging about 85 a day .

accelerate-v: with start point

The stock 's declineARG1
acceleratedrel
in the past two weeksARGM-TMP
,
from a price of $ 8 a share on Oct. 9ARG3
.

accelerate-v: with adverbial extent

The size and pace of disbursementsARG1
willARGM-MOD
acceleraterel
furtherARG2
under the Brady Plan , which promises larger and earlier disbursements to approved countriesARGM-LOC
.

accelerate-v: with agent

Earlier this month , Staples Inc. , a Newton , Mass. , office - supplies discounter , said
itARG0
wouldARGM-MOD
acceleraterel
expansion plansARG1
nationwideARGM-LOC
and offer more of its stock to the public .

accelerate-v: with end point

Final - hour tradingARG1
acceleratedrel
to 108.1 million shares , a record for the Big BoardARG4
.

acceleration-n: many argms

The quake has the
highestARGM-ADJ
peakARGM-ADJ
groundARGM-LOC
accelerationrel
ever recorded .

acceleration-n: with args

The egg 'sARG1
accelerationrel
due to gravityARG0
caused it to smash upon impact with the ground .