Predicate: confess
confess: Frames file for 'confess' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry
37.7, verbs of saying.
Roleset id: confess.01 , mode of speaking, vncls: 37.3, framnet:
confess.01: Last example is effectively 'admit' rather than 'speak', but since
that vn class (29.5) takes the same PAS as 'say' I've merged the two
sets. It does make disambiguation a little more interesting, though.
Roles:
Arg0: speaker (vnrole: 37.3-agent)
Arg1: utterance (vnrole: 37.3-topic)
Arg2: hearer (vnrole: 37.3-recipient)
Example: standard
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
''Mr. Sohmer confesses that it was partly in response to such
attitudes that he is now ``a dweller on one of the two islands off
the coast of America.''
Arg0: Mr. Sohmer
Rel: confesses
Arg1: that it was partly in response to such attitudes that he is now ``a dweller on one of the two islands off the coast of America
Example: inverted
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
[``When I saw the Lexus sales projections, I got worried,'']-1
confesses *trace*-1 Takashi Oka, who led the Infiniti development
team.
Rel: confesses
Arg1: *trace*
Arg0: Takashi Oka, who led the Infiniti development team
Example: prepositional utterance
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
During time off, Mr. Roman tends to his garden; Mr. Phillips
confesses to a fondness for, among other things, fast cars and
planes.
Arg0: Mr. Phillips
Rel: confesses
Arg1: to a fondness for, among other things, fast cars and planes