Frames file for 'chant' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset chant.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to recite as a chant, intone":
Roles:
Arg0:reciter, agent
Arg1:utterance
Examples:
transitive (-)
person: ns
tense: past
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
In the stands , people waved ANC flags , wore ANC T-shirts , sang ANC songs and chanted ANC slogans .
ArgM-LOC:
In the stands
Arg0:
people
REL:
chanted
Arg1:
ANC slogans
another transitive (-)
person: ns
tense: past
aspect: progressive
voice: active
form: participle
The protesters who [*T*-1] greeted Mikhail Gorbachev at East Berlin 's airport earlier this month were n't shouting `` Go U.S.A '' -- they were chanting `` Gorby , [*] Help Us . ''