Roleset account.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "deal with, explain":

Roles:

Arg0:accounter


Arg1:thing accounted for, dealt with, explained


Arg2:instrumental, accounted for with or by

Examples:

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




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