Predicate: decouple

Roleset id: decouple.01 , take apart, separate, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

decouple.01: DECOUPLE-V NOTES: Corrected by Claire. (from decouple.01-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
decouple (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: Agent, cause of separation (vnrole: 23.1-1-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: First or all (where one constituent) things being separated (vnrole: 23.1-1-Patient)
        Arg2-PPT: Thing being separated from (when separate constituent) (vnrole: 23.1-1-co-patient)

Example: All arguments

        Nixon did away with that a much better way when he decoupled the dollar from gold.

        Arg0: he
        Rel: decoupled
        Arg1: the dollar
        Arg2: from gold

Example: Ergative

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        However, the photons still retain the distribution they had when they decoupled from matter, and at that time they reflected the distribution of the matter

        Arg1: they
        Rel: decoupled
        Arg2: from the matter

Example: decouplers in one constituent

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        In Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay, "Thinking Sex," she decoupled the lesbian/feminist alliance.

        Argm-loc: In Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay, "Thinking Sex"
        Arg0: she
        Rel: decoupled
        Arg1: the lesbian/feminist alliance