Detaching : disassemble-23.3












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[11 : Something ----s something ]
[21 : Somebody ----s something PP ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]
[20 : Somebody ----s somebody PP ]



NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.co-patient[from] (Co-Patient)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) AVP (Manner) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Item) AVP (Manner) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) PP[in] (Place) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) PP[from] (Source)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Item) DNI (Source)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Item) PP[from] (Source) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Items)
NP (Items) V () CNI (Agent)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Item) AVP (Manner)
NP (Patient) V () ADV-Middle ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Agent) V () NP (Items)


Examples from WordNet


They untied the prisoner
unfasten your belt
detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it



Examples from VerbNet


That new handle unscrewed easily.
I unscrewed the handle.
I unscrewed the handle from the box.



Examples from SemCor


In the Analytical phase of their Cubism, Braque and Picasso had had to minimize three-dimensionality simply in_order to preserve it; they had also had to generalize it- to the point, finally, where the illusion of depth and relief became abstracted from specific three-dimensional entities and was rendered largely as the illusion of depth and relief as_such: as a disembodied attribute and property detached from everything not itself.
His hand went to her shoulder and pushed_aside the knotted scarf that surmounted the striped poplin gown; then, to better purpose, he took_hold_of the knot and with dextrous fingers, untied it.
Every morning early, in the summer, we searched the trunks of the trees as high as we could reach for the locust shells, carefully detached their hooked claws from the bark where they hung, and stabled them, a weird herd, in an angle between the high roots of the tulip_tree, where no grass grew in the dense shade.
He had just finished unlacing the right one when the telephone rang again.
There was no lock on the door, only an iron hook which he unfastened.
It recommends that the United_States`` seek instead to detach the Castro regime from the Communist bloc by working for a diplomatic detente and a resumption of trade relations; and concentrate its constructive efforts on eliminating in other parts of Latin_America the social conditions on_which totalitarian nationalism feeds''.
Winston watched her fumbling to untie her apron.
Turning his back, Curt crossed to the stall, reached over to untie the buckskin 's halter rope, and waved his hand in the animal 's face.