Roleset aver.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "assert to be true":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, speaker


Arg1:proposition held to be true

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


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Globe columnist Mike Barnicle -- in the second attack on his employer in as many weeks -- averred that his shadowy countenance was so bad, it looked ``like a face you'd find on a bottle of miracle elixir that promises to do away with diarrhea in our lifetime.''
Arg0:	Globe columnist Mike Barnicle
REL:	averred
Arg1:	his shadowy countenance was so bad, it looked ``like a face you'd find on a bottle of miracle elixir that promises to do away with diarrhea in our lifetime