Predicate: say

Roleset id: say.01 , say, vncls: 37.7

Roles:

        Arg0: Sayer
        Arg1: Utterance
        Arg2: Hearer
        Arg3: Attributive

Example: Transitive

        A Lorillard spokeswoman said "This is an old story."
       

        Arg0 : A Lorillard spokeswoman
        Rel : said
        Arg1 : "This is an old story"

Example: Fronted

        [Kent cigarettes were sold]-1, the company said *trace*-1
       

        Arg0 : the company
        Rel : said
        Arg1 : *trace*

Example: Inverted

        [What matters is what advertisers will pay]-1, said *trace*-1 Newsweek's chairman
       

        Rel : said
        Arg1 : *trace*
        Arg0 : Newsweek's chairman

Example: Split

        "What you have to understand," said John [*?*], "is that
        Philly literally stinks."
       

        ArgM-DSP : [*?*] -> ["What you have to understand"] ["is that Philly literally stinks"]
        Arg1 : [*?*]
        Rel : said
        Arg0 : John

Example: with listener

        John said to Mary: "you're an idiot."
       

        Arg0 : John
        Rel : said
        Arg2 : to Mary
        Arg1 : "you're an idiot"

Example: Weird, attributive usage:

        "Well that's odd," said John of the disappearance of his nose.
       

        Arg1 : "Well that's odd"
        Rel : said
        Arg0 : John
        Arg3 : of the disappearance of his nose

Example: As discourse-level event

        Let's assume someone, say John, has been killed.
       

        Rel : say
        Arg1 : John

Example: split utterance

        John is said to be an idiot.
       

        Arg1 : [John][to be an idiot]
        Rel : said

Roleset id: say.02 , discourse function, vncls:

Roles:

Example: TAKES NO ARGS

        Do you think 0 this war is going *-1 to end up...much less popular say
        a year from now...?
       

        Rel : say