Roleset curse.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "use bad language":

Roles:

Arg0:speaker


Arg1:utterance, four letter words


Arg2:listener

Examples:

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


intransitive (-)
Often the genteel, conservative, long-term-oriented investment bankers were displaced by crude traders: ``When angered, he cursed so forcefully that his face reddened and his pale-blue eyes narrowed into tiny slits,'' the authors say of Lehman's Lewis Glucksman.
Arg0:	he
REL:	cursed
ArgM-MNR:	so forcefully that his face reddened and his pale-blue eyes narrowed into tiny slits

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


with utterance (-)
``#$%&)O(*&^%&^%#$('' John cursed.
Arg1:	#$%&)O(*&^%&^%#$(
Arg0:	John
REL:	cursed

I'm betting this usage doesn't occur much. person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with listener (-)
John cursed eloquently in Frisian at Mary.
Arg0:	John
REL:	cursed
Argm-MNR:	eloquently in Frisian
Arg2-at:	at Mary