Predicate: witter
Roleset id: witter.01 , drone on about something trivial, Source: , vncls: , framnet:
witter.01: WITTER-V NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT. Member of VNcls manner_speaking-37.3. (from witter.01-v)
Aliases:
| Alias | FrameNet | VerbNet |
|---|
| witter (v.) | | |
Roles:
Arg0-PAG: speaker (vnrole: 37.3-agent)
Arg1-PPT: utterance (vnrole: 37.3-topic)
Arg2-GOL: hearer (vnrole: 37.3-recipient)
Example: standard intransitive
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
He is very boring and will never use a simple word if there is a longer one available but worst of all - he witters .
Arg0: he
Rel: witters
Example: args 0, 1, with DSP
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: ns
["I can also now tell the House," he wittered *trace*-1, "that we are ready to sign tax information exchange agreements with three additional countries . . ."]-1
Arg0: he
Rel: wittered
Arg1: *trace*-1 (tag on the normal parent NP node, sister to rel)
Argm-dsp: *trace*-1 (tag on the actual word itself, the lowest leaf node)