Predicate: curse
curse: Frames file for 'curse' based on sentences in wsj. No access to
Verbnet at the moment.
Roleset id: curse.01 , use bad language, vncls: 33, framnet:
curse.01: I'm betting this usage doesn't occur much.
Roles:
Arg0: speaker (vnrole: 33-agent)
Arg1: utterance, four letter words (vnrole: 33-predicate)
Arg2: listener (vnrole: 33-theme)
Example: intransitive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Often the genteel, conservative, long-term-oriented investment
bankers were displaced by crude traders: ``When angered, he cursed
so forcefully that his face reddened and his pale-blue eyes
narrowed into tiny slits,'' the authors say of Lehman's Lewis
Glucksman.
Arg0: he
Rel: cursed
Argm-mnr: so forcefully that his face reddened and his pale-blue eyes narrowed into tiny slits
Example: with utterance
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
[``#$%&)O(*&^%&^%#$('']-1 John cursed *trace*-1.
Arg1: *trace*
Arg0: John
Rel: cursed
Example: with listener
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John cursed eloquently in Frisian at Mary.
Arg0: John
Rel: cursed
Argm-mnr: eloquently in Frisian
Arg2: at Mary
Example: wish evil upon
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
She cursed him with the fervent wish that he rot in hell.
Arg0: She
Rel: cursed
Arg2: him
Arg1: with the fervent wish that he rot in hell
Example: Bare utterance
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
As her life ended she cursed him, "you shall live the lifetime of every soul that you have caused death today."
Argm-tmp: As her life ended
Arg0: She
Rel: cursed
Arg2: him
Arg1: "you shall live the lifetime of every soul that you have caused death today."