Metaphor:ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT

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Name Gloss ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
Name Transcription
Aliases

ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT (Philosophy in the Flesh,197)

Description
Metaphor Level General
Metaphor Type Primary, Composed/complex
Experiential Basis
Source Frame Gain possession
Roles:recipient, source, possessable_object, getting_x-schema
Target Frame Purposeful action
Roles:actor, action_x-schema, objective, action_type, effector, effort


Mappings:

actor <= recipient
action_x-schema <= getting_x-schema
action.x-schema.final = achivening purpose; getting_x-schema.final = gaining possession
objective <= possession

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
Relation Type makes use of
Related Metaphor CHANGE IS ACQUISITION
Description
Current Metaphor ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
Relation Type makes use of
Related Metaphor EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT
Description

Entailments:


Examples:

Example Text: They just handed him the job.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (197)
Annotation:
Comments:
Example Text: Seize the opportunity.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (197)
Annotation:
Comments:
Example Text: I kept getting close to a world championship, but it kept escaping me.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (197)
Annotation:
Comments:
Example Text: He finally managed to get a smile out of her.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: Grady 1998:112
Annotation:
Comments:
Example Text: She landed four huge accounts this year.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: Grady 1998:112
Annotation:
Comments:

Graph of related metaphors:

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n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Create object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Create_object" fontsize="10.0" ];

n4 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n5 [label="Difficulties in action" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Difficulties_in_action" fontsize="10.0" ];

n5 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n6 [label="Governing action" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Governing_action" fontsize="10.0" ];

n6 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n7 [label="Government decision making" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Government_decision_making" fontsize="10.0" ];

n7 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n8 [label="Instrument" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Instrument" fontsize="10.0" ];

n8 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n9 [label="Person" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Person" fontsize="10.0" ];

n9 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n10 [label="Self propelled motion" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Self_propelled_motion" fontsize="10.0" ];

n10 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n11 [label="Self-initiated state change" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Self-initiated_state_change" fontsize="10.0" ];

n11 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n12 [label="Work scenario" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Work_scenario" fontsize="10.0" ];

n12 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n13 [label="Action" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Action" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n13 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n14 [label="Desiring" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Desiring" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n14 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is a target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="CHANGE IS ACQUISITION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:CHANGE_IS_ACQUISITION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n3 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:EXPERIENCING_A_STATE_IS_POSSESSING_AN_OBJECT" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n4 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="Transfer scenario" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Transfer_scenario" fontsize="10.0" ];

n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Possession" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Possession" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n4 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; n5 [label="Possessable object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Possessable_object" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }

ExampleEnglish (They just handed him the job., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (197), ?, ?, ?) +, English (Seize the opportunity., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (197), ?, ?, ?) +, English (I kept getting close to a world championship, but it kept escaping me., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (197), ?, ?, ?) +, English (He finally managed to get a smile out of her., ?, ?, Grady 1998:112, ?, ?, ?) + and English (She landed four huge accounts this year., ?, ?, Grady 1998:112, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Gain possession +
Has target frameFrame:Purposeful action +
Mappingactor (recipient, ?) +, action_x-schema (getting_x-schema, action.x-schema.final = achivening purpose) + and objective (possession, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT (Philosophy in the Flesh) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Gain possession +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Purposeful action +
Metaphor.TypePrimary + and Composed/complex +
Related metaphormakes use of (CHANGE IS ACQUISITION, ?) + and makes use of (EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT, ?) +
Has subobject
"Has subobject" is a predefined property representing a container construct that allows to accumulate property-value assignments similar to that of a normal wiki page.
Metaphor:ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT#Is_example_of +