Rolesets - tone

tone_down

tone_down.01 - diminish intensity

TONE_DOWN-V NOTES: No Verbnet entry. (from tone.01-v)

Aliases:

tone_down (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: cause of diminishment, agent
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming less intense

the one example

Shaken by tumbling stock prices and pessimistic projections of U.S. economic growthARGM-PRD
,
currency analysts around the worldARG0
have
tonedrel
downrel
their assessments of the dollar 's near - term performanceARG1
.