Predicate: calumniate

Roleset id: calumniate.01 , to make false and malicious statements, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

calumniate.01: CALUMNIATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'calumniate' based on dictionary.com. Verbnet entry 33. (from calumniate.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
calumniate (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: false statement maker, agent (vnrole: 33-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: entity calumniated (vnrole: 33-Theme)

Example: basic

        Tales and all the anecdotes of the Coffeehouses of Paris and of the dissenting meeting houses of London are scoured of all the slander of those who calumniate persons, that afterwards they may murder them with impunity

        Arg0: those, who
        Rel: calumniate
        Arg1: persons
        Argm-prp: that afterwards they may murder them with impunity