Predicate: pontificate

pontificate: Frames file for 'pontificate' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry.

Roleset id: pontificate.01 , talk like the Pope, vncls: , framnet:

pontificate.01: Pontificate, unlike other verbs of saying, is usually intransitive, showing a mode of behavior more than any specific act of speaking.

Roles:

        Arg0: speaker (Pope)
        Arg1: utterance
        Arg2: listener

Example: just transitive

        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        Witnesses shout, scream, pontificate: ``...a dream that the planet
        could be saved from itself and from the sadistic dumb creatures
        who try to tear down every decent man who raises his voice.''

        Arg0: Witnesses
        Rel: pontificate
        Arg1: a dream that the planet could be saved from itself and from the sadistic dumb creatures who try to tear down every decent man who raises his voice