Predicate: account

Frames file for 'account' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No access to verbnet. Comparison with handle.

Roleset id: account.01 , deal with, explain, vncls:

Roles:

        Arg0: accounter
        Arg1: thing accounted for, dealt with, explained
        Arg2: instrumental, accounted for with or by

Example: the bulk of the examples look just like this

        Profit-taking accounted for much of the slide in OTC stock prices,
        according to David Mills, senior vice president of Boston Company
        Advisers.

        Arg0 : Profit-taking
        Rel : accounted
        Arg1 : for much of the slide in OTC stock prices

Example: adding instrumental

        John accounted for his absence from the meeting with a wild story
        of alien abduction.
       

        Arg0 : John
        Rel : accounted
        Arg1 : for his absence from the meeting
        Arg2 : with a wild story of alien abduction