Predicate: whistle

whistle: Frames file for 'whistle' based on sentences in wsj.

Roleset id: whistle.01 , make a whistling noise, vncls: 26.7-1-1 37.3 40.2 38 43.2, framnet: Make_noise

whistle.01: VN updated by Julia, 10/2010. Member of Vncls performance-26.7-1-1, manner_speaking-37.3, nonverbal_expression-40.2, animal_sounds-38, sound_emission-43.2.

Roles:

        Arg0: maker of noise (vnrole: 26.7-1-1-agent, 40.2-agent, 37.3-agent, 38-agent, 43.2-theme)
        Arg1: noise itself, tune, utterance (vnrole: 26.7-1-1-theme, 40.2-theme, 37.3-topic, 38-theme)
        Arg2: hearer (vnrole: 26.7-1-1-beneficiary, 40.2-recipient, 37.3-recipient, 38-recipient)

Example: whistling Dixie

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        I don't think [anyone]-1 left the place *trace*-1 whistling Dixie.''

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: whistling
        Arg1: Dixie

Example: with hearer

        Why, Mary, why are you so violent?
        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full

        John whistled at Mary, whereupon she slugged him.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: whistled
        Arg2: at Mary