Roleset adapt.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "make (more) suitable":

Roles:

Arg0:agent, adaptor


Arg1:thing adapted


Arg2:adapted to


Arg3:adapted from

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


unstated goal or source (-)
William Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 developed an early language-housekeeper system for PCs, and Gates became an industry billionaire six years after IBM adapted one of these versions in 1981.
Arg0:	IBM
REL:	adapted
Arg1:	one of these versions
ArgM-TMP:	in 1981

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: active form: infinitive


arg1 defaults to reflexive on arg0 (-)
And surprising numbers of small investors seem *trace* to be adapting to greater stock market volatility and say they can live with program trading.
Arg0:	*trace* -> surprising numbers of small investors
REL:	adapting
Arg2-to:	greater stock market volatility

person: third tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


with source (-)
This article is adapted *trace* from one in the October American Spectator.
REL:	adapted
Arg1:	*trace* -> This article
Arg3-from:	one in the October American Spectator

Args 2 and 3 don't seem to be able to cooccur; perhaps they could be merged? That seems semantically weird, though.