Predicate: tell

Roleset id: tell.01 , pass along information, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

tell.01: TELL-V NOTES: (from tell.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
tell (v.)Reporting Telling
telling (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: Speaker (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-agent, 37.2-1-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: Utterance (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-topic, 37.2-1-topic)
        Arg2-GOL: Hearer (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-recipient, 37.2-1-recipient)

Example: ditransitive

        The score tell you what the characters are thinking and feeling.

        Arg0: The score
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: you
        Arg1: what the characters are thinking and feeling

Example: odd ditransitive

        What this tells us *trace* is that US trade law is working.

        Arg0: this
        Rel: tells
        Arg2: us
        Arg1: *trace* is that US trade law is working

Example: ARG0 and ARG2 and ARG1

        If you ask the shopkeepers in the main streets or back alleys , they will tell you that the favorite figure of the moment is the Maneki Neko , or Japanese " beckoning cat , " whose Chinese name is literally " wealth - attracting cat " -LRB- -LRB-c-RRB-?Ìö]o? -RRB- .

        Argm-adv: If you ask the shopkeepers in the main streets or back alleys
        Arg0: they
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: you
        Arg1: that the favorite figure of the moment is the Maneki Neko , or Japanese " beckoning cat , " whose Chinese name is literally " wealth - attracting cat " -LRB- -LRB-c-RRB-?Ìö]o? -RRB-

Example: fronted

        ["Only Nixon could go to China,"]-1 he told a group of Americans *trace*-1

        Arg0: he
        Rel: told
        Arg2: a group of Americans
        Arg1: *trace*

Roleset id: tell.02 , distinguish, determine, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

tell.02: TELL-V NOTES: (from tell.02-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
tell (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: entity causing separation
        Arg1-PPT: thing(s) being divided
        Arg2-PPT: source, separated from, if separate from arg1

Example: merged objective args

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

        He says his team couldn't tell whether accounts receivable had been paid or not.

        Arg0: his team
        Argm-mod: could
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: tell
        Arg1: whether accounts receivable had been paid or not

Example: ARG1 and ARG0 and ARG2

        What does this tell us about the transformation of Taiwan 's townships ?

        Arg1: What
        Arg0: this
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: us
        Argm-adv: about the transformation of Taiwan 's townships


Predicate: tell_on

Roleset id: tell_on.03 , squeal, be a tattletail, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

tell_on.03: TELL_ON-V NOTES: (from tell.03-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
tell_on (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: stool pigeon
        Arg1-PPT: alleged perpetrator

Example: nobody likes a tattletail

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

        No one told on Ludie , not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box [*T*-1] .

        Arg0: No one
        Rel: [ told] [ on]
        Arg1: Ludie
        Argm-tmp: not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box [*T*-1]