Roleset justify.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "show to be right":

Roles:

Arg0:justifier


Arg1:decision or attitude being shown to be right


Arg2:explicit instrument


Arg3:secondary predication


Arg4:benefactive, justified to

Examples:

simple transitive (-)
As a country superimposes its cultural and political attitudes on others, it searches its heritage in hopes of *trace* justifying its aggressiveness.
Arg0:	*trace* -> it
REL:	justifying
Arg1:	its aggressiveness




instrument and attribute (-)
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great , p can be justified *trace* as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
Argm-CAU:	Since the hazards of poor communication are so great
Arg1:	*trace* = p
Argm-MOD:	can
REL:	justified
Arg3-as:	a habitable site
Arg2:	only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes , a mine , or a sugar maple camp




with benefactive (-)
I'd have a hard time *trace* justifying to my students that it wasn't cheating.
Arg0:	*trace*=I
REL:	justifying
Arg4-to:	my students
Arg1:	it wasn't cheating.

Watch out for adjectival "justified"--test by substituting "unjustified".