Predicate: acknowledge
Roleset id: acknowledge.01 , admit, vncls: 37.10 29.9-1, framnet: Statement
acknowledge.01: Based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Member of Vncls consider-29.9-1, confess-37.10. Comparison with 'claim'.
Roles:
Arg0: admitter, claimer, speaker (vnrole: 37.10-agent, 29.9-1-agent)
Arg1: proposition, claim, utterance (vnrole: 37.10-topic, 29.9-1-theme)
Arg2: hearer (vnrole: 37.10-recipient)
Arg3: secondary predication, attribute of arg 1 acknowledged (vnrole: 29.9-1-predicate)
Example: acknowledge a sentence
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
[Control Data's semiconductor business, VTC Inc., continues to lose
money]-1, the executives acknowledged *trace*-1, but they said they
consider some of the technology vital to national defense and so
are reluctant to dispose of it.
Arg0: the executives
Rel: acknowledged
Arg1: *trace*-1
Example: acknowledge an NP
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
*trace*-1 Apparently acknowledging weaker U.S. sales systemwide,
[McDonald's]-1 vowed ``to use our size and muscle to do all that is
necessary to build the brand.''
Argm-adv: Apparently
Arg0: *trace*-1 (= McDonald's)
Rel: acknowledging
Arg: weaker U.S. sales systemwide
Example: with hearer
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John acknowledged to Mary that he was an idiot.
Arg0: John
Rel: acknowledged
Arg2: to Mary
Arg1: that he was an idiot
Example: with attributive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John acknowledged Mary as his illegitimate child--a claim she
denied vigorously, on the grounds that she's older than he is.
Arg0: John
Rel: acknowledged
Arg1: Mary
Arg3: as his illegitimate child