Roleset phone.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to telephone":

Roles:

Arg0:agent making a call


Arg1:receiver


Arg2:message

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
If directors or producers phone me and say [0] they know ` Liz , ' I know [0] they 've never met her .
Arg0:	directors or producers
REL:	phone
Arg1:	me

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


prepositional Arg2 (-)
He phoned them with updates on the investment , such as `` funny things that [*T*-1] happened at the well that week , '' he says [0] [*T*-2] .
Arg0:	He
REL:	phoned
Arg1:	them
Arg2-with:	updates on the investment , such as `` funny things that [*T*-1] happened at the well that week

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


Arg2 as a VP (-)
Mr. Seidman said yesterday , for example , that Sen. Dennis DeConcini ( D. , Ariz. ) , who [*T*-2] received $ 48,100 [*U*] in contributions from Mr. Keating , phoned Mr. Seidman [*] to request that he push for a sale of Lincoln before it would be seized [*-1] .
Arg0:	Sen. Dennis DeConcini ( D. , Ariz. ) , who [*T*-2] received $ 48,100 [*U*] in contributions from Mr. Keating ,
REL:	phoned
Arg1:	Mr. Seidman
Arg2:	[*] to request that he push for a sale of Lincoln before it would be seized [*-1]