Predicate: tell
Roleset id: tell.01 , pass along information, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
tell.01: TELL-V NOTES: (from tell.01-v)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
tell (v.) | Reporting Telling | |
telling (n.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: Speaker (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-agent, 37.2-1-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: Utterance (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-topic, 37.2-1-topic)
        Arg2-GOL: Hearer (vnrole: 37.1.1-1-1-recipient, 37.2-1-recipient)
Example: ditransitive
        The score tell you what the characters are thinking and feeling.
        Arg0: The score
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: you
        Arg1: what the characters are thinking and feeling
Example: odd ditransitive
        What this tells us *trace* is that US trade law is working.
        Arg0: this
        Rel: tells
        Arg2: us
        Arg1: *trace* is that US trade law is working
Example: ARG0 and ARG2 and ARG1
        If you ask the shopkeepers in the main streets or back alleys , they will tell you that the favorite figure of the moment is the Maneki Neko , or Japanese " beckoning cat , " whose Chinese name is literally " wealth - attracting cat " -LRB- -LRB-c-RRB-?Ìö]o? -RRB- .
        Argm-adv: If you ask the shopkeepers in the main streets or back alleys
        Arg0: they
        Argm-mod: will
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: you
        Arg1: that the favorite figure of the moment is the Maneki Neko , or Japanese " beckoning cat , " whose Chinese name is literally " wealth - attracting cat " -LRB- -LRB-c-RRB-?Ìö]o? -RRB-
Example: fronted
        ["Only Nixon could go to China,"]-1 he told a group of Americans *trace*-1
        Arg0: he
        Rel: told
        Arg2: a group of Americans
        Arg1: *trace*
Roleset id: tell.02 , distinguish, determine, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
tell.02: TELL-V NOTES: (from tell.02-v)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
tell (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: entity causing separation
        Arg1-PPT: thing(s) being divided
        Arg2-PPT: source, separated from, if separate from arg1
Example: merged objective args
        person: ns,  tense: present,  aspect: ns,  voice: active,  form: full
        He says his team couldn't tell whether accounts receivable had been paid or not.
        Arg0: his team
        Argm-mod: could
        Argm-neg: n't
        Rel: tell
        Arg1: whether accounts receivable had been paid or not
Example: ARG1 and ARG0 and ARG2
        What does this tell us about the transformation of Taiwan 's townships ?
        Arg1: What
        Arg0: this
        Rel: tell
        Arg2: us
        Argm-adv: about the transformation of Taiwan 's townships
Predicate: tell_on
Roleset id: tell_on.03 , squeal, be a tattletail, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
tell_on.03: TELL_ON-V NOTES: (from tell.03-v)
Aliases:
Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
tell_on (v.) | | |
Roles:
        Arg0-PAG: stool pigeon
        Arg1-PPT: alleged perpetrator
Example: nobody likes a tattletail
        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns
        No one told on Ludie , not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box [*T*-1] .
        Arg0: No one
        Rel: [ told] [ on]
        Arg1: Ludie
        Argm-tmp: not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite-box [*T*-1]