Roleset accept.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "take willingly":

Roles:

Arg0:acceptor


Arg1:thing accepted


Arg2:accepted-from


Arg3:attribute

Examples:

transitive agentive (-)
...prevent them from *trace* accepting our superior cash offer.
Arg0:	*trace*=them
REL:	accepting
Arg1:	our superior cash offer




with donor (-)
He wouldn't accept anything of value from those he was writing about.
Arg0:	He
Argm-MOD:	would
Argm-NEG:	n't
REL:	accept
Arg1:	anything of value
Arg2-from:	those he was writing about

Treebank got the syntax here wrong. "Anything" and "of value" are split across two nodes--a complex argument will be necessary.


with attribute (-)
...many practices historically accepted *trace* as normal here...
Arg1:	*trace*=many practices
Argm-TMP:	historically
REL:	accepted
Arg3-as:	normal
Argm-LOC:	here