Predicate: spit
Roleset id: spit.01 , eject saliva, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
spit.01: SPIT-V NOTES: Frames file for 'spit' based on sentences in brown. Verbnet entry (from spit.01-v predicate notes) SPITTING-N NOTES: spit.01 (from spitting.01-n)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
spit (v.) | | |
spitting (n.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: spitter (vnrole: 40.1.2-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: explicit mention of saliva (vnrole: 40.1.2-theme)
        Arg2-GOL: spat-on
Example: he was despised
        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        Men spit on Him.
        Arg0: Men
        Rel: spit
        Arg2: on Him
Example: intransitive
        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        Means spit and edged on.
        Arg0: Means
        Rel: spit
Example: with arg1
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle
        He-1 spent long hours before the TV *trace*-1 spitting out promises of revenge.
        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: spitting
        Arg1: out promises of revenge
Example: Arg0,1,2
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        It took a jury less than an hour to acquit a West Virginia man of battery charges stemming from his spitting tobacco juice on the Westboro Baptist Church's Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Fred.
        Arg0: his
        Rel: spitting
        Arg1: tobacco juice
        Arg2: on the Westboro Baptist Church's Shirley Phelps-Roper, daughter of Fred