Predicate: edify

Roleset id: edify.01 , build up physically, spiritually, or intellectually, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

edify.01: EDIFY-V NOTES: Frame created by Arrick based on 'enlighten'; reframed a bit by Julia in keeping with nominal 'edification', based on BOLT-7 and internet. Member of VNcls remedy-45.7. (from edify.01-v) EDIFICATION-N NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from edification.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
edify (v.)
edification (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: builder (vnrole: 45.7-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: entity built up (vnrole: 45.7-patient)
        Arg2-PPT: attributive-- subject matter enlightened about
        Arg3-MNR: instrument (vnrole: 45.7-instrument)

Example: inform

        Please would someone edify me as to the premise of their suit?

        Arg0: someone
        Rel: edify
        Arg1: me
        Arg2: as to the premise of their suit?

Example: adjective

        Native sons of Taiwan, sad * to part with the edifying influence of Japanese culture, lived side by side on the same small island with old soldiers from Shandong, who *T* sang anti-Japanese battle hymns every day.

        Rel: edifying
        Arg0: influence

Example: nominal rel: edification

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        So here, for your edification, is an incredibly scientific pair of polls which will revolutionize modern science and understanding of sexuality.

        Arg1: your
        Rel: edification

Example: nominal rel: edification

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        In addition , under the edification of " looking forward to money " and extreme individualism , people become selfish , snobbish and timid ; thus , making money and not caring about unimportant things become the common pursuit of the Chinese people ; they have returned to the former state of disunity .

        Rel: edification
        Arg0: of "looking forward to money" and extreme individualism

Example: abstract arg0

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Contradictory as it may seem, there was nothing which-1 [*-1] entertained and edified him more than the little fellow's interest in his tenantry.

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: edified
        Arg1: him
        Argm-ext: more than the little fellow's interest in his tenantry

Example: with instrument

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Melania so won Apronianus by her talents, and edified him by her virtues, that he consented to receive from her instruction in the Christian faith.

        Arg0: Melania
        Argm-cxn: [so][that he consented to receive from her instruction in the Christian faith]
        Rel: edified
        Arg1: him
        Arg3: by her talents