Predicate: spout

spout: Frames file for 'spout' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet entry 43.4.

Roleset id: spout.01 , emit liquid, vncls: 43.4, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: spouter (vnrole: 43.4-agent)
        Arg1: liquid (vnrole: 43.4-theme)

Example: metaphorical liquid

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

        There are moments in this ``Summerfolk'' when the characters
        populating the vast multilevel country house (which looks like a
        parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria
        Petrovich) spout philosophic bon mots with the self-conscious
        rat-a-tat-tat pacing of ``Laugh In.''

        Arg0: the characters populating the vast multilevel country house (which looks like a parody of Frank Lloyd Wright and is designed by Victoria Petrovich)
        Rel: spout
        Arg1: philosophic bon mots
        Argm-mnr: with the self-conscious rat-a-tat-tat pacing of ``LaughIn


Predicate: spout_off

Roleset id: spout.02 , say flippantly or quickly, phrasal, vncls: , framnet: -

spout.02: Added by Julia based on Call Home. No VNcls.

Roles:

        Arg0: speaker
        Arg1: explicit mention of 'mouth' (or equivalent)
        Arg2: utterance iteslf (quote/ 'that __')
        Arg3: subject matter of utterance ('about __')

Example: with arg1

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

        Anyway so I spouted my mouth off

        Argm-dis: Anyway
        Argm-dis: so
        Arg0: I
        Rel: [spouted] [off]
        Arg1: my mouth

Example: args 0, 1, 3 and GOL

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

        That scum-sucking Dawi Zooter-something spouted his mouth off to them about working for Mumbleburg.

        Arg0: That scum-sucking Dawi Zooter-something
        Rel: [spouted] [off]
        Arg1: his mouth
        Argm-gol: to them
        Arg3: about working for Mumbleburg.

Example: args 0 and 2

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

        he spouted off that it was no doubt some disgruntled Tea Party guy.

        Arg0: he
        Rel: [spouted] [off]
        Arg1: that it was no doubt some disgruntled Tea Party guy

Example: NP as arg2

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

        You just spouted off dates.

        Arg0: You
        Argm-tmp: just
        Rel: [spouted] [off]
        Arg2: dates