Roleset swear.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "make a promise":

Roles:

Arg0:swearer


Arg1:promise

Examples:

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


deja vu all over again (-)
President Bush has sworn to bring him to justice.
Arg0:	President Bush
REL:	sworn
Arg1:	to bring him to justice

Roleset swear.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "use bad language":

Roles:

Arg0:swearer

Examples:

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


weird example (-)
Out here on the Querecho Plains of New Mexico, however, the mood is more upbeat; trucks rumble along the dusty roads and burly men in hard hats sweat and swear through the afternoon sun.
Arg0:	burly men in hard hats
REL:	swear
ArgM-DIR:	through the afternoon sun

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


with manner (-)
John swears like a pirate.
Arg0:	John
REL:	swears
Argm-MNR:	like a pirate

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


with listener (-)
John swore at Mary.
Arg0:	John
REL:	swore
Argm-DIR:	at Mary

Roleset swear.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "tell the truth":

Roles:

Arg0:speaker


Arg1:true utterance


Arg2:listener

Examples:

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


the truth, the whole truth... (-)
Like the Long Island matron in the theater district the other day who *trace* swore to a stranger that she once met Liza Minnelli.
Arg0:	*trace* -> who -> the other day
REL:	swore
Arg2-to:	a stranger
Arg1:	she once met Liza Minnelli

Roleset swear.05 Verbnet Class: NONE "attest to something":

Roles:

Arg0:swearer


Arg1:thing sworn by

Examples:

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


swear by (-)
Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, the company's chairman, swears by her firm touch, saying regular massages are a balm for his old football injuries.
Arg0:	Anthony J.F. O'Reilly, the company's chairman,
REL:	swears
Arg1-by:	her firm touch
ArgM-ADV:	saying regular massages are a balm for his old football injuries

This sense might be mergable with swear.01.

Roleset swear.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "promise to not (do)":

Roles:

Arg0:swearer


Arg1:thing you're not going to do

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


nope, never again (-)
Kidder Peabody became the most recent firm *trace* *trace* to swear off stock-index arbitrage trading for its own account, and Merrill Lynch late yesterday took the major step of renouncing the trading strategy even for its clients.
Arg0:	*trace* -> *trace* -> the most recent firm
REL:	[ swear] [ off]
Arg1:	stock-index arbitrage trading for its own account