This article deals with the occurrence and identification of lexically unrealized verbal arguments in Hungarian from a pragmatic point of view. Hungarian verbs do not vary as to whether they can be used with implicit arguments or not as they do in English and in languages similar to English, they do vary as to in what manner or in what context they can occur with such arguments. The paper concludes that the occurrence types of verbs with implicit arguments as well as the identification mechanisms are guided by a very general pragmatic principle, namely by the principle of relevance.