Predicate: aver
Roleset id: aver.01 , assert to be true, vncls: 29.5-2, framnet: Statement
aver.01: Based on WSJ. VN updated by Julia, 9/2010. Member of Vncls conjecture-29.5-2.
Roles:
Arg0: agent, speaker (vnrole: 29.5-2-agent)
Arg1: proposition held to be true (vnrole: 29.5-2-theme)
Example: here a hapax, there a hapax...
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Globe columnist Mike Barnicle -- in the second attack on his
employer in as many weeks -- averred that his shadowy countenance
was so bad, it looked ``like a face you'd find on a bottle of
miracle elixir that promises to do away with diarrhea in our
lifetime.''
Arg0: Globe columnist Mike Barnicle
Rel: averred
Arg1: that his shadowy countenance was so bad, it looked ``like a face you'd find on a bottle of miracle elixir that promises to do away with diarrhea in our lifetime