Predicate: announce

announce: Frames file for 'announce' based on survey of initial sentences from big corpus, and comparison to 'say'

Roleset id: announce.01 , say for all to hear, vncls: 37.7 48.1.2, framnet: Omen Statement

announce.01: Member of Vncls reflexive_appearance-48.1.2, say-37.7-1

Roles:

        Arg0: announcer (vnrole: 37.7-agent, 48.1.2-agent)
        Arg1: utterance (vnrole: 37.7-topic, 48.1.2-theme)
        Arg2: hearer (vnrole: 37.7-recipient, 48.1.2-recipient)
        Arg3: attribute of arg1

Example: transitive

        A Lorillard spokeswoman announced "This is an old story."

        Arg0: A Lorillard spokeswoman
        Rel: announced
        Arg1: "This is an old story."

Example: fronted

        [Kent cigarettes were sold]-1, the company announced *Trace*-1

        Arg0: the company
        Rel: announced
        Arg1: *Trace*

Example: Inverted

        (*T* --> "What matters is what advertisers will pay")
        What matters is what advertisers will pay, announced *T* Newsweek's chairman

        Rel: announced
        Arg1: *T*
        Arg0: Newsweek's chairman

Example: split (theoretically possible, but odd)

        *remember-- if the tree doesn't have a link to the parent S-node of the prop (*trace*-1 here), create the link yourself using argM-DSP. "announced John *trace*-1" should be in a PRN node, which will be removed from arg1 later.
        ["What you have to understand," announced John *trace*-1,
        "is that Philly stinks."]-1

        Arg0: John
        Arg1: *trace*-1 (= "What you have to understand," announced John *trace*-1, "is that Philly literally stinks."

Example: with listener

        John announced to Mary: "you're an idiot."

        Arg0: John
        Rel: announced
        Arg2-2: to Mary
        Arg1: "you're an idiot."

Example: weird, attributive usage: (theoretically possible, but odd)

        "Well that's odd," announced John of the disappearance of his nose.

        Arg1: "Well that's odd,"
        Rel: announced
        Arg0: John
        Arg3-of: of the disappearance of his nose.

Example: split utterance

        Only concatenate if there's no trace.
        John-1 was announced *trace*-1 to be an idiot.

        Rel: announced
        Arg1: *trace*-1 to be an idiot