Predicate: confess

Roleset id: confess.01 , mode of speaking, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

confess.01: CONFESS-V NOTES: Frames file for 'confess' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entries say-37.7-1, confess-37.10. (from confess.01-v predicate notes) CONFESSION-N NOTES: Roleset based on verb entry confess.01. Corresponds to VN classes confess-37.10 and say-37.7-1. (from confession.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
confession (n.)
make_confession (l.)
confess (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: speaker (vnrole: 37.10-agent, 37.7-1-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: utterance (vnrole: 37.10-topic, 37.7-1-topic)
        Arg2-GOL: hearer (vnrole: 37.10-recipient, 37.7-1-recipient)

Example: standard

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

        ''Mr. Sohmer confesses that it was partly in response to such attitudes that he is now ``a dweller on one of the two islands off the coast of America.''

        Arg0: Mr. Sohmer
        Rel: confesses
        Arg1: that it was partly in response to such attitudes that he is now ``a dweller on one of the two islands off the coast of America

Example: inverted

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

        [``When I saw the Lexus sales projections, I got worried,'']-1 confesses *trace*-1 Takashi Oka, who led the Infiniti development team.

        Rel: confesses
        Arg1: *trace*
        Arg0: Takashi Oka, who led the Infiniti development team

Example: prepositional utterance

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

        During time off, Mr. Roman tends to his garden; Mr. Phillips confesses to a fondness for, among other things, fast cars and planes.

        Arg0: Mr. Phillips
        Rel: confesses
        Arg1: to a fondness for, among other things, fast cars and planes

Example: All arguments

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

        Anyone who has seen this film will remember Judy Garland's countless declarations that she wants to go home again and particularly her confession to Glinda that "if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own backyard; because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!"

        Arg0: her
        Rel: confession
        Arg2: to Glinda
        Arg1: that "if I ever go looking..."