Roleset imply.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "suggest":

Roles:

Arg0:implier


Arg1:implication


Arg2:listener

Examples:

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


implied clause (-)
The statistics imply that three-quarters of blacks approve of Mr. Bush's job performance and 85% of blacks approve of Mrs. Bush.
Arg0:	The statistics
REL:	imply
Arg1:	three-quarters of blacks approve of Mr. Bush's job performance and 85% of blacks approve of Mrs. Bush

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


implied NP (-)
A reintegrated Europe implies big changes in 40-year-old military and economic policies.
Arg0:	A reintegrated Europe
REL:	implies
Arg1:	big changes in 40-year-old military and economic policies

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full


discourse usage (-)
As their name implies, these operations are linked to far-reaching policy reforms that aim at helping borrowing countries get back on the growth path and at enhancing their credit-worthiness.
Arg0:	their name
REL:	implies
Arg1:	[ these operations] [ are linked to far-reaching policy reforms that aim at helping borrowing countries get back on the growth path and at enhancing their credit-worthiness]

Effectively this should be read as "their name implies that these operations...", but Treebank uniformly does not parse it this way, probably because of the "as". Hence the need for the non-constituent argument. person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


with listener (-)
Mary's behavior implied to John that he was getting lucky that evening.
Arg0:	Mary's behavior
REL:	implied
Arg2-to:	John
Arg1:	he was getting lucky that evening