Roleset pontificate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "talk like the Pope":

Roles:

Arg0:speaker (Pope)


Arg1:utterance


Arg2:listener

Examples:

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


just transitive (-)
Witnesses shout, scream, pontificate: ``...a dream that the planet could be saved from itself and from the sadistic dumb creatures who try to tear down every decent man who raises his voice.''
Arg0:	Witnesses
REL:	pontificate
Arg1:	a dream that the planet could be saved from itself and from the sadistic dumb creatures who try to tear down every decent man who raises his voice

Pontificate, unlike other verbs of saying, is usually intransitive, showing a mode of behavior more than any specific act of speaking.