Predicate: officiate

officiate: Frames file for 'officiate' based on survey of sentences in Webtext 2.5-2. VerbNet entry 29.6.

Roleset id: officiate.01 , to function as an officer of a duty, such as a priest or referee, vncls: 29.6, framnet:

officiate.01: Framed by Claire

Roles:

        The predication argument is specified by the VerbNet class, but I am not certain that this argument will arise in actual usage.
        Arg0: official performing a duty (vnrole: 29.6-agent)
        Arg1: duty, ceremony officiated by arg 0
        Arg2: role, secondary predication of arg0, officiated as what? (vnrole: 29.6-predicate)

Example: Transitive

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

        Outgoing Taipei mayor Ma Ying-jeou officiated on the 11th evening the opening of this year's Christmas celebration...

        Arg0: Outgoing Taipei mayor May Ying-jeou
        Rel: officiated
        Argm-tmp: on the 11th evening
        Arg1: the opening of this year's Christmas Celebration