Roleset confirm.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "confirm, attest the truth of a proposition":

Roles:

Arg0:confirmer


Arg1:thing confirmed, statement or proposition


Arg2:benefactive, hearer

Examples:

justifying the comparison (-)
He declined *trace* to confirm or deny reports that Provigo executive Henri Roy is trying to put together a management buy-out of the catalogue showroom unit.
Arg0:	*trace* -> He
REL:	confirm
Arg1:	reports that Provigo executive Henri Roy is trying to put together a management buy-out of the catalogue showroom unit




watch the complementizers (-)
GM confirmed Friday that it received permission late Thursday from U.S. antitrust regulators to increase its Jaguar holdings past the $15 million level.
Arg0:	GM
REL:	confirmed
ArgM-TMP:	Friday
Arg1:	it received permission late Thursday from U.S. antitrust regulators to increase its Jaguar holdings past the $15 million level




with hearer (-)
John confirmed to Mary that he'd been sleeping in a box under a bridge.
Arg0:	John
REL:	confirmed
Arg2-to:	Mary
Arg1:	he'd been sleeping in a box under a bridge.

I wonder if we'll get the religious sense of confirm?