Predicate: decree

decree: Frames file for 'decree' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus.

Roleset id: decree.01 , to issue or demand by decree, vncls: 29.3, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: ruler, issuer of decree (vnrole: 29.3-agent)
        Arg1: entity decreed (vnrole: 29.3-theme)
        Arg2: listener

Example: transitive

        person: third,  tense: present,  aspect: perfect,  voice: active,  form: participle

        ( Within her garden , she has decreed a waterfall , a rill , ponds and other costly , trivial waterworks beside the Hudson . )

        Argm-loc: Within her garden
        Arg0: she
        Rel: decreed
        Arg1: a waterfall , a rill , ponds and other costly , trivial waterworks
        Argm-loc: beside the Hudson

Example: With arg 2, listener

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        This is because those [for whom]-2 [a happy ending]-1 has already been decreed *-1 *T*-2 by God in the written book.

        Argm-tmp: already
        Rel: decreed
        Arg1: *-1
        Arg2: *T*-2
        Argm-slc: for whom --> *those
        Arg0: by God
        Argm-loc: in the written book