Predicate: aver

Roleset id: aver.01 , assert to be true, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

aver.01: AVER-V NOTES: Based on WSJ. VN updated by Julia, 9/2010. Member of Vncls conjecture-29.5-2. (from aver.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
aver (v.)Statement

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: agent, speaker (vnrole: 29.5-2-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: proposition held to be true (vnrole: 29.5-2-Theme)

Example: here a hapax, there a hapax...

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

        Globe columnist Mike Barnicle -- in the second attack on his employer in as many weeks -- averred that his shadowy countenance was so bad, it looked ``like a face you'd find on a bottle of miracle elixir that promises to do away with diarrhea in our lifetime.''

        Arg0: Globe columnist Mike Barnicle
        Rel: averred
        Arg1: that his shadowy countenance was so bad, it looked ``like a face you'd find on a bottle of miracle elixir that promises to do away with diarrhea in our lifetime