Predicate: say
Roleset id: say.01 , say, vncls: 37.7 78-1, framnet: Spelling_and_pronouncing , Text_creation , Statement
say.01: VN, FN updated by Julia. Member of Vncls say-37.7, indicate-78.
Roles:
Arg0: Sayer (vnrole: 37.7-agent, 78-1-cause)
Arg1: Utterance (vnrole: 37.7-topic, 78-1-topic)
Arg2: Hearer (vnrole: 37.7-recipient, 78-1-recipient)
Arg3: Attributive
Example: Transitive
A Lorillard spokeswoman said "This is an old story."
Arg0: A Lorillard spokeswoman
Rel: said
Arg1: "This is an old story"
Example: Fronted
[Kent cigarettes were sold]-1, the company said *trace*-1
Arg0: the company
Rel: said
Arg1: *trace*-1
Example: Inverted
[What matters is what advertisers will pay]-1, said *trace*-1 Newsweek's chairman
Rel: said
Arg1: *trace*-1
Arg0: Newsweek's chairman
Example: Split
S-["What you have to understand," said John [*?*], "is that
Philly literally stinks."]
Argm-dsp: [*?*] (tag the leaf node of the *?* itself, and '*' link to the S node containing the ENTIRE utterance
Arg1: [*?*] (tag the parent node)
Rel: said
Arg0: John
Example: with listener
John said to Mary: "you're an idiot."
Arg0: John
Rel: said
Arg2: to Mary
Arg1: "you're an idiot"
Example: Weird, attributive usage:
"Well that's odd," said John of the disappearance of his nose.
Arg1: "Well that's odd"
Rel: said
Arg0: John
Arg3: of the disappearance of his nose
Example: As discourse-level event
Let's assume someone, say John, has been killed.
Rel: say
Arg1: John
Example: split utterance
John-1 is said *trace*-1 to be an idiot.
Arg1:
Rel: said
Arg: *trace*-1 to be an idiot
Roleset id: say.02 , discourse function, vncls: , framnet:
say.02: predicate added by Arrick
Roles:
Example: TAKES NO ARGS
Do you think 0 this war is going *-1 to end up...much less popular say
a year from now...?
Rel: say