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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="decrease">
<note>
  Frames file for 'decrease' based on sentences in financial
  subcorpus.  Verbnet entries calibratable_cos-45.6 other_cos-45.4,
  bunches of other framed members.  Comparison with (and reversal
  from) increase.
</note>

<roleset id="decrease.01" name="go down incrementally" vncls="45.4">
<roles>
    <role descr="causer of decline, agent" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="45.4" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
    <role descr="thing decreasing" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="45.4" vntheta="Patient"/>
        <vnrole vncls="45.6" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
    <role descr="amount decreased by, EXT or MNR" n="2">
	<vnrole vncls="45.6" vntheta="Extent"/></role>
    <role descr="start point" n="3"/>
    <role descr="end point" n="4"/>
</roles>

<example name="transitive agentive">
<text>
    Mr. Terra said in the filing that he sold the stock *trace* to
    decrease his position in the Evanston, Ill., banking concern. 
</text>
        <arg n="0">*trace* -&gt;  he</arg>
        <rel>decrease</rel>
        <arg n="1">his position in the Evanston, Ill., banking
        concern</arg> 
</example>


<example name="passivized with start point">
<text>
    The size of the issue was decreased *trace* from an originally
    planned $95.2 million. 
</text>
        <rel>decreased</rel>
        <arg n="1">*trace* -&gt;  The size of the issue</arg>
        <arg f="from" n="3">an originally planned $95.2 million </arg>
</example>

<example name="ergative, with extent">
<text>
    Advertising volume at the company's 35 regional newspapers
    decreased 1.1%. 
</text>
        <arg n="1">Advertising volume at the company's 35 regional
        newspapers</arg> 
        <rel>decreased</rel>
        <arg f="EXT" n="2">1.1%</arg>
</example>

<example name="ergative with start point">
<text>
    Perhaps most prominent, Dow Chemical Co., which as of midyear had
    racked up eight consecutive record quarters, is expected to report
    that profit decreased in the latest quarter from a year earlier,
    if only by a shade. 
</text>
        <arg n="1">profit</arg>
        <rel>decreased</rel>
        <arg f="TMP" n="M">in the latest quarter</arg>
        <arg f="from" n="3">a year earlier</arg>
        <arg f="MNR" n="M">if only by a shade</arg>
</example>

<example name="with end point">
  <inflection person="ns" tense="past" aspect="ns" voice="active" form="full"/>
  <text>
    The number of people receiving regular state benefits in the week
 ended Sept. 30 decreased to a seasonally adjusted 2,202,000, or 2.2 %
 of those covered [*] by unemployment insurance, from 2,205,000 the
 previous week, when the insured unemployment rate also was 2.2 %
 [*T*-1].  
  </text>
  <arg n="1">The number of people receiving regular state
  benefits in the week ended Sept. 30</arg>
  <rel>decreased</rel>
  <arg n="4" f="to">a seasonally adjusted 2,202,000, or 2.2 % of those
  covered [*] by unemployment insurance,</arg>
  <arg n="3" f="from">2,205,000 the previous week, when the insured
  unemployment rate also was 2.2%</arg>
</example>

</roleset>
</predicate>
</frameset>
