Roleset overhear.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "hear by 'accident'":

Roles:

Arg0:hearer


Arg1:heard


Arg2:location of speech, or speaker(s)

Examples:

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


with conversants (-)
It is evident that Lizzie did not tell everything she overheard [*T*-3] between her father and her Uncle Morse.
Arg0:	she
REL:	overheard
Arg1:	[*T*-3] -> everything
Arg2-between:	between her father and her Uncle Morse

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full
One could make a good argument for the utterance as both the argument of 'add' and the argument of 'overhear', but the syntax doesn't currently allow that (would need a trace after one/both verbs)

intransitive (-)
Thornburg added in a lower voice but Andy overheard, ``They act more like a jury than an audience''.
Arg0:	Andy
REL:	overheard

person: third tense: past aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


funky passive (-)
McKinley was overheard [*-1] to say that he would like to get the knife into Spencer's possession and that...
REL:	overheard
Arg2:	[*-1] -> McKinley
Arg1:	to say that he would like to get the knife into Spencer's possession and that...