Predicate: comment

Roleset id: comment.01 , intransitive, vncls: 37.11-1-1, framnet: Statement

comment.01: based on survey of initial sentences of big corpusand comparison with 'say'. Member of VNcls lecture-37.11-1-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: commentor (vnrole: 37.11-1-1-agent)
        Arg1: thing commented on (vnrole: 37.11-1-1-topic)

Example:

        Judge Wapner commented publicly on a pending case.

        Arg0: Judge Wapner
        Rel: commented
        Argm-mnr: publically
        Arg1: on a pending case

Roleset id: comment.02 , basic transitive, vncls: 37.11-1-1, framnet: Statement

comment.02: Member of VNcls lecture-37.11-1-1.

Roles:

        Arg0: commenter (vnrole: 37.11-1-1-agent)
        Arg1: utterance
        Arg2: hearer (vnrole: 37.11-1-1-recipient)
        Arg3: attributive

Example: transitive

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

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

Example: fronted

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

        Arg0: the company
        Rel: commented
        Arg1: *Trace*-1

Example: Inverted (theoretically possible, but odd)

        [What matters is what advertisers will pay]-1, commented *Trace*-1 Newsweek's chairman

        Rel: commented
        Arg1: *Trace*-1
        Arg0: Newsweek's chairman

Example: split

        ["What you have to understand," commented *trace*-? John,
        "is that Philly literally stinks."]-S

        Arg0: John
        Arg1: *trace*
        Argm-dsp: *trace* (on the *?* itself)-> ["What you have to understand," commented *trace*-? John, "is that Philly literally stinks."]-S

Example: with listener

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

        Arg0: John
        Rel: commented
        Arg2: to Mary
        Arg1: "you're an idiot."

Example: weird, attributive usage:

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

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