Predicate: sing
Roleset id: sing.01 , sing, vncls: 26.7-1 37.3 43.2, framnet: Communication_manner
sing.01: Based on financial subcorpus, automatic expansion via verbnet. Member of VNcls performance-26.7-1-1, manner_speaking-37.3, sound_emission-43.2. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.
Roles:
Arg0: singer (vnrole: 26.7-1-agent, 43.2-agent, 37.3-agent)
Arg1: song (vnrole: 26.7-1-theme, 43.2-theme, 37.3-topic)
Arg2: audience (vnrole: 26.7-1-beneficiary, 37.3-recipient)
Example: transitive with manner
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
It isn't every day that we hear a Violetta who-1 *trace*-1 can sing
the first act's high-flying music with all the little notes
perfectly pitched and neatly stitched together.
Arg0: *trace*-1 (= who)
Argm-slc: who -> a Violetta
Argm-mod: can
Rel: sing
Arg1: the first act's high-flying music
Argm-mnr: with all the little notes perfectly pitched and neatly stitched together
Example: passivized
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
[His melodious ``Confutatis'']-1 was smoothly sung *trace*-1 by bass
Brian Matthews.
Argm-mnr: smoothly
Rel: sung
Arg1: *trace*-1
Arg0: by bass Brian Matthews
Example: intransitive
John sings superbly.
Arg0: John
Rel: sings
Argm-mnr: superbly