Predicate: tell

Roleset id: tell.01 , pass along information, vncls: 37.1.1-1-1 37.2-1, framnet: Reporting , Telling

Roles:

        Arg0: Speaker (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-agent, 37.2-1-agent)
        Arg1: Utterance (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-topic, 37.2-1-topic)
        Arg2: Hearer (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-recipient, 37.2-1-recipient)

Example: ditransitive

        The score tell you what the characters are thinking and feeling.

        Arg0: The score
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: you
        Arg1: what the characters are thinking and feeling

Example: odd ditransitive

        What this tells us *trace* is that US trade law is working.

        Arg0: this
        Rel: tells
        Arg2: us
        Arg1: *trace* is that US trade law is working

Example: prepositional arg2

        John told a story to Mary.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: told
        Arg1: a story
        Arg2: to Mary

Example: fronted

        ["Only Nixon could go to China,"]-1 he told a group of Americans *trace*-1

        Arg0: he
        Rel: told
        Arg2: a group of Americans
        Arg1: *trace*

Roleset id: tell.02 , distinguish, determine, vncls: 23.1, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: entity causing separation (vnrole: 23.1-agent)
        Arg1: thing(s) being divided (vnrole: 23.1-patient1)
        Arg2: source, separated from, if separate from arg1 (vnrole: 23.1-patient2)

Example: merged objective args

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

        He says his team couldn't tell whether accounts receivable had
        been paid or not.

        Arg0: his team
        Argm-mod: could
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: tell
        Arg1: whether accounts receivable had been paid or not

Example: all args

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

        John can't tell his head from his ass.

        Arg0: John
        Argm-mod: ca
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: tell
        Arg1: his head
        Arg2: from his ass


Predicate: tell_on

Roleset id: tell.03 , squeal, be a tattletail, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: stool pigeon
        Arg1: alleged perpetrator

Example: nobody likes a tattletail

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

        No one told on Ludie , not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box [*T*-1] .

        Arg0: No one
        Rel: [ told] [ on]
        Arg1: Ludie
        Argm-tmp: not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box [*T*-1]