Frame:Birth

Name Gloss	Birth
Transcription
Description	beginning or first phase/process of life cycle
Closest FrameNet Frame(s)	Giving_birth
Other aliases
Type	Frame

Roles:

Role Name:	birth_protagonist
Role Type:
Definition/Comments:
FrameNet Role:

Role Name:	birth_x-schema
Role Type:
Definition/Comments:
FrameNet Role:

Role Name:	birth_state
Role Type:
Definition/Comments:	as a substate of the x-schema
FrameNet Role:

Related Frames:

Current Frame:	Birth
Relation Type:	is a subprocess of
Related Frame:	Life cycle Roles:beginning_of_life, developmental_stages, end_of_life, life_liver
Comments:

Current Frame:	Birth
Relation Type:	is in a scalar opposition to
Related Frame:	Death Roles:death_protagonist, cause_of_death, death_x-schema, dead_state
Comments:

Bindings:

Inferences

Relevant Lexical Units:

Language	English
Lempos	birth.n

Language	English
Lempos	birth.v

Language	English
Lempos	give.v birth

Language	English
Lempos	childbirth.n

Language	English
Lempos	child-bearing.n

Language	English
Lempos	birthing.n

Language	English
Lempos	parturition.n

Lexical Units in Related FrameNet Frames:

Giving_birth	Giving_birth

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Metaphors that use this frame:

as Target frame	as Source frame

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Graph of frame relations:

digraph framerelsgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Death" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Death" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Birth" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Birth" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Life cycle" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Life_cycle" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is a subprocess of" fontsize="8.0" ];

n2 -> n1 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; }