Predicate: pontificate

Roleset id: pontificate.01 , talk like the pope, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

pontificate.01: PONTIFICATE-V NOTES: Pontificate, unlike other verbs of saying, is usually intransitive,showing a mode of behavior more than any specific act of speaking. (from pontificate.01-v) PONTIFICATING-N NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-5, pontificate-v.01. Corresponds to VNcls lecture-37.11-1. (from pontificating.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
pontificating (n.)
pontificate (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: speaker (Pope)
        Arg1-PPT: utterance
        Arg2-GOL: listener

Example: just transitive

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

        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

Example: args 0, 1

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

        Alex continues his pontificating about the best TV from this past season.

        Arg0: his
        Rel: pontificating
        Arg1: about the best TV from this past season