Predicate: chatter

Roleset id: chatter.01 , make rapid talking noises, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

chatter.01: CHATTER-V NOTES: Frames file for 'chatter' based on sentences in brown. (from chatter.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
chatter (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: emitter of noise, speaker (vnrole: 37.6-Agent, 37.3-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: topic, if arg0 is speaker (vnrole: 37.6-Topic, 37.3-Topic)

Example: usually intransitive

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

        Her teeth chattered so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible.

        Arg0: Her teeth
        Rel: chattered
        Argm-adv: so that she made three attempts at speech before she became intelligible

Example: with manner

        person: ns,  tense: past,  aspect: both,  voice: active,  form: participle

        Two women, who [*T*-2] had been chattering like parrots, were struck dumb.

        Argm-rcl: who -gt; Two women
        Arg0: [*T*-2]
        Rel: chattering
        Argm-mnr: like parrots

Example: with topic

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: participle

        [Maggie]*-1 was looking much happier already, [*-1]clearing a space on the table and chattering about how she could put up a typewriter right there...

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: chattering
        Arg1: about how she could put a typewriter right there


Predicate: chatter_away

Roleset id: chatter_away.02 , talk rapidly, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

chatter_away.02: CHATTER_AWAY-V NOTES: No VNcls, but see those related to chatter.01. Added by Julia based on ULA. (from chatter.02-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
chatter_away (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: chatterer
        Arg1-PPT: subject matter

Example: with COM

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: participle

        She watched the psi bob her head , unaware of the rest of the bridge , shaking blonde curls as she chattered away with the approaching psi relay on Mason 's ship .

        Arg0: she
        Rel: [chattered] [away]
        Argm-com: with the approaching psi relay on Mason's ship