Rolesets - taper

taper_off

taper_off.01 - become slender

TAPER_OFF-V NOTES: Updated by Julia, 10/2010. Member of Vncls other_cos-45.4. (from taper.01-v)
TAPERING_OFF-N NOTES: taper.01 (from tapering.01-n)
Arg0 was added later, so intransitive instances will all have been tagged with arg1 in the past. (from taper.01-v)

Aliases:

taper_off (v.)
tapering_off (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: agent (rare)
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming slender

they all look like this

Kenneth Mayland , economist for Society Corp. , a Cleveland bank , said
demand for exports of factory goodsARG1
is beginning to
taperrel
offrel
.

arg 1 only

Some of his teen - age patients drank as much as four quarts of milk a day , Dr. Fisher found , and
their acneARG1
taperedrel
offrel
as soon as he tapered off their milkARGM-TMP
.

taper

taper.02 - gradually diminish

TAPER-V NOTES: (from taper.02-v)
TAPERING-N NOTES: taper.02 (from tapering.02-n)

Aliases:

tapering (n.)
taper (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: Agent
ARG1-PPT: Logical subject, patient, thing being diminished
ARG2-EXT: EXT, amount diminished by
ARG3-VSP: Start point
ARG4-PRD: End point

With start and end points

Dr. PhilbinARG0
taperedrel
Antonio 's medicationARG1
from 50mg / dayARG3
to 25mg / dayARG4