Rolesets - tell

tell

tell.01 - pass along information

TELL-V NOTES: (from tell.01-v)

Aliases:

tell (v.)
telling (n.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: Speaker
ARG1-PPT: Utterance
ARG2-GOL: Hearer

ditransitive

The scoreARG0
tellrel
youARG2
what the characters are thinking and feelingARG1
.

odd ditransitive

What
thisARG0
tellsrel
usARG2
is that US trade law is workingARG1
.

ARG0 and ARG2 and ARG1

If you ask the shopkeepers in the main streets or back alleysARGM-ADV
,
theyARG0
willARGM-MOD
tellrel
youARG2
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-ARG1
.

fronted

" Only Nixon could go to China , "ARG1
heARG0
toldrel
a group of AmericansARG2

tell.02 - distinguish, determine

TELL-V NOTES: (from tell.02-v)

Aliases:

tell (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: entity causing separation
ARG1-PPT: thing(s) being divided
ARG2-PPT: source, separated from, if separate from arg1

merged objective args

He says
his teamARG0
couldARGM-MOD
n'tARGM-NEG
tellrel
whether accounts receivable had been paid or notARG1
.

ARG1 and ARG0 and ARG2

WhatARG1
does
thisARG0
tellrel
usARG2
about the transformation of Taiwan 's townshipsARGM-ADV
?

tell_on

tell_on.03 - squeal, be a tattletail

TELL_ON-V NOTES: (from tell.03-v)

Aliases:

tell_on (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: stool pigeon
ARG1-PPT: alleged perpetrator

nobody likes a tattletail

No oneARG0
toldrel
onrel
LudieARG1
,
not even when he slipped live grasshoppers into the mite - boxARGM-TMP
.