Predicate: chatter

chatter: Frames file for 'chatter' based on sentences in brown.

Roleset id: chatter.01 , make rapid talking noises, vncls: 37.6 37.3, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: emitter of noise, speaker (vnrole: 37.6-actor1, 37.3-agent)
        Arg1: topic, if arg0 is speaker (vnrole: 37.6-topic, 37.3-topic)

Example: usually intransitive

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

        Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech
        before she became intelligible.

        Arg0: Her teeth
        Rel: chattered
        Argm-adv: so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible

Example: with manner

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: both,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Two women, who [*T*-2] had been chattering like parrots, were
        struck dumb.

        Argm-rcl: who -gt; Two women
        Arg0: [*T*-2]
        Rel: chattering
        Argm-mnr: like parrots

Example: with topic

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        [Maggie]*-1 was looking much happier already, [*-1] clearing a
        space on the table and chattering about how she could put up a
        typewriter right there...

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: chattering
        Arg1: about how she could put a typewriter right there


Predicate: chatter_away

Roleset id: chatter.02 , talk rapidly, vncls: , framnet: -

chatter.02: No VNcls, but see those related to chatter.01. Added by Julia based on ULA.

Roles:

        Arg0: chatterer
        Arg1: subject matter

Example: with COM

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        She watched the psi bob her head , unaware of the rest of the bridge , shaking blonde curls as she chattered away with the approaching psi relay on Mason 's ship .

        Arg0: she
        Rel: [chattered] [away]
        Argm-com: with the approaching psi relay on Mason's ship