Roleset contend.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "hold and utter a belief":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, entity uttering a belief


Arg1:contension, belief


Arg2:hearer

Examples:

basic transitive (-)
``The buyers walk away, and the specialist is left alone'' as the buyer of last resort for his stable of stocks, he contends *trace*.
Arg0:	he
REL:	contends
Arg1:	*trace* -> The buyers walk away, and the specialist is left alone'' as the buyer of last resort for his stable of stocks

Might or might not actually take a hearer. Like other verbs of saying, this shows up in all the split/fronted/inverted constructions. See 'say' for examples of how to tag these.

Roleset contend.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "deal with, suffer through":

Roles:

Arg0:contender


Arg1:thing dealt with

Examples:

transitive (-)
It has also rattled Federal's strongly anti-union management, which *trace* is already contending with melding far-flung operations.
Arg0:	*trace* -> which -> Federal's strongly anti-union management
ArgM-TMP:	already
REL:	contending
Arg1-with:	melding far-flung operations