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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="tumble">
<note>
  Frames file for 'tumble' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
  Verbnet classes calibratable_cos-45.6 escape-51.1-2 meander-47.7;
  other framed members include climb, decline, decrease, drop, fall,
  gain, grow, increase, jump, rise.  Comparison with fall.
</note>

<roleset id="tumble.01" name="fall" vncls="47.7">
<roles>
  <role n="0" descr="causer of falling"/>
  <role descr="Logical subject, patient, thing falling" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="47.7" vntheta="Theme"/>
        <vnrole vncls="51.1-2" vntheta="Theme"/>
        <vnrole vncls="45.6" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
  <role descr="EXT, amount fallen" n="2">
	<vnrole vncls="45.6" vntheta="Extent"/></role>
  <role descr="start point" n="3"/>
  <role descr="end point, end state" n="4">
        <vnrole vncls="51.1-2" vntheta="Location"/></role>
  <role descr="medium" f="LOC" n="M"/>
</roles>

<example name="boring ergative">
<text>
    On days when prices are tumbling, they must be willing to buy
    shares from sellers when no one else will. 
</text>
        <arg n="1">prices</arg>
        <rel>tumbling</rel>
</example>

<example name="with EXT and destination">
<text>
    After troubled Heritage Media proposed acquiring POP Radio in a
    stock swap , POP Radio's shares tumbled 4 to 14 3/4. 
</text>
        <arg f="TMP" n="M">After troubled Heritage Media proposed
        acquiring POP Radio in a stock swap</arg> 
        <arg n="1">POP Radio's shares</arg>
        <rel>tumbled</rel>
        <arg f="EXT" n="2">4</arg>
        <arg f="to" n="4">14 3\/4</arg>
</example>

<example name="'on volume' of XYZ">
<text>
    MCI Communications tumbled 2 5/8 to 42 3/8 on 4.7 million shares
    even though the telecommunications giant reported a 63% increase
    in third-quarter profit. 
</text>
        <arg n="1">MCI Communications</arg>
        <rel>tumbled</rel>
        <arg f="EXT" n="2">2 5/8</arg>
        <arg f="to" n="4">42 3/8</arg>
        <arg f="LOC" n="M">on 4.7 million shares</arg>
        <arg f="ADV" n="M">even though the telecommunications giant
        reported a 63 % increase in third-quarter profit</arg> 
</example>

<example name="with agent">
  <inflection person="ns" tense="present" aspect="ns" voice="active" form="full"/>
  <text>
     Some fruit visionaries say the Fuji could someday tumble the Red
     Delicious from the top of America's apple heap.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">the Fuji</arg>
  <arg n="m" f="MOD">could</arg>
  <arg n="m" f="TMP">someday</arg>
  <rel>tumble</rel>
  <arg n="1">the Red Delicious</arg>
  <arg n="3" f="from">the top of America's apple heap</arg>
</example>

<note>
Refer to other verbs-of-stock-reportage (rise, fall, climb, drop, etc)
for additional examples.
</note>

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