<?xml version="1.0"?>
<frameset>
<predicate lemma="dump">
<note>
  Frames file for 'dump' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
  Verbnet class funnel-9.3, other framed members include push, shake.
  Comparison with 'unload'.
</note>

<roleset id="dump.01" name="get rid of" vncls="9.3">
<roles>
  <role descr="agent, entity getting rid of something" n="0">
		
  <vnrole vncls="9.3" vntheta="Agent"/></role>

  <role descr="thing gotten rid of" n="1">
		
  <vnrole vncls="9.3" vntheta="Theme"/></role>

  <role descr="instrument or manner, if separate from agent" n="2"/>
</roles>

<example name="transitive, no instrument">
<text>
    Unable to unload UAL and other airline shares, takeover-stock
    speculators, or risk arbitragers, dumped every blue-chip stock
    they had.  
</text>
        <arg n="0">takeover-stock speculators, or risk
        arbitragers,</arg> 
        <rel>dumped</rel>
        <arg n="1">every blue-chip stock  they had </arg>
</example>

<note>
Will this have an instrument?  Intuition says no.
</note>

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