Roleset acknowledge.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "admit":

Roles:

Arg0:admitter, claimer, speaker


Arg1:proposition, claim, utterance


Arg2:hearer


Arg3:secondary predication

Examples:

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


acknowledge a sentence (-)
Control Data's semiconductor business, VTC Inc., continues to lose money, the executives acknowledged *trace*, but they said they consider some of the technology vital to national defense and so are reluctant to dispose of it.
Arg0:	the executives
REL:	acknowledged
Arg1:	*trace* -> Control Data's semiconductor business, VTC Inc., continues to lose money

This can occur in any of the 'say' frames: fronted, inverted, split; so be careful. person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


acknowledge an NP (-)
*trace* Apparently acknowledging weaker U.S. sales systemwide, McDonald's vowed ``to use our size and muscle to do all that is necessary to build the brand.''
ArgM-ADV:	Apparently
REL:	acknowledging
Arg1:	weaker U.S. sales systemwide
Arg0:	*trace* -> McDonald's

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


with hearer (-)
John acknowledged to Mary that he was an idiot.
Arg0:	John
REL:	acknowledged
Arg2-to:	Mary
Arg1:	he was an idiot

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


with attributive (-)
John acknowledged Mary as his illegitimate child--a claim she denied vigorously, on the grounds that she's older than he is.
Arg0:	John
REL:	acknowledged
Arg1:	Mary
Arg3-as:	his illegitimate child

Should these be split into two senses? Maybe.