Roleset ramble.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "move aimlessly":

Roles:

Arg0:entity in motion


Arg1:path

Examples:

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


intransitive (-)
Bond prices rambled yesterday as investors kept close watch on the stock market and worried about a wave of new supply.
Arg0:	Bond prices
REL:	rambled
ArgM-TMP:	yesterday
ArgM-TMP:	as investors kept close watch on the stock market and worried about a wave of new supply

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


with path (-)
John can ramble for hours over hill and dale.
Arg0:	John
Argm-MOD:	can
REL:	ramble
Argm-TMP:	for hours
Arg1-over:	hill and dale

Roleset ramble.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "talk aimlessly":

Roles:

Arg0:speaker


Arg1:utterance, topic

Examples:

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


blah blah blah (-)
John rambled about his dissertation for hours before anyone realized that he hadn't actually done any original research.
Arg0:	John
REL:	rambled
Arg1-about:	his dissertation
Argm-TMP:	for hours
Argm-TMP:	before anyone realized that he hadn't actually done any original research

Also a phrasal variant 'ramble on' which takes the same PAS in both rolesets.