Rolesets - decline

decline

decline.01 - fall,

DECLINE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'decline' based on survey of initial sentences in big corpus and comparison with 'fall' beware of adjectival usages like: "declining interest rates" (from decline.01-v predicate notes)
DECLINE-N NOTES: (from decline.01-n)

Aliases:

decline (v.)
decline (n.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: Logical subject, patient, thing declining
ARG2-EXT: EXT, amount declined by
ARG3-DIR: start point
ARG4-GOL: end point, end state of arg1
ARG5-LOC: specific aspect of arg1 in decline

unaccusative

.. if
interest ratesARG1
declinerel

with EXT

BacklogsARG1
declinedrel
0.3 %ARG2

with EXT and end point

Its net incomeARG1
decliningrel
42 %ARG2
to $ 121 millionARG4
in the first 9 months of 1989ARGM-TMP

with start point

But she expects prices to rebound soon and is telling investorsshe expects
the stock marketARG1
woARGM-MOD
n'tARGM-NEG
declinerel
more than 10 % to 15 %ARG2
from recent highsARG3
.

decline.02 - demure, turn down

DECLINE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'decline' based on survey of initial sentences in big corpus and comparison with 'fall' beware of adjectival usages like: "declining interest rates" (from decline.02-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

decline (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: entity turning down
ARG1-PPT: thing turned down

arg1 as verbal

A spokesmanARG0
declinedrel
to elaborateARG1

ARG0 and ARG1

My wife , who had been hoping to take care of our sick daughter herself when she got home from workARG0
,
naturallyARGM-ADV
declinedrel
her kind offerARG1
.