Roleset howl.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "emit howl, speak howlingly":

Roles:

Arg0:howler


Arg1:utterance, cognate object


Arg2:listener

Examples:

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


like a wolf (-)
John howled at the moon.
Arg0:	John
REL:	howled
Arg2-at:	the moon

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


like a crybaby (-)
``Ow, that hurt!'' howled John when Mary pulled off the band-aid.
Arg1:	``Ow, that hurt!''
REL:	howled
Arg0:	John
Argm-TMP:	when Mary pulled off the band-aid

Roleset howl.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "make howling noises while moving":

Roles:

Arg0:entity in motion


Arg1:path

Examples:

person: ns tense: future aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


the one example from the corpus (-)
Then the whole thing will start to collapse, just as it did in the 1970s, and the ghosts and banshees will be howling through the place turning people's hair white.
ArgM-TMP:	Then
Arg0:	the ghosts and banshees
ArgM-MOD:	will
REL:	howling
Arg1-through:	the place
ArgM-ADV:	turning people's hair white

Roleset howl.03 Verbnet Class: 1 "bad weather":

Roles:

Arg0:wind, etc.

Examples:

person: third tense: present aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


stormy weather (-)
``The wind is really howling outside,'' John said.
Arg0:	The wind
Argm-DIS:	really
REL:	howling
Argm-LOC:	outside

Possibly mergable with howl.01