Metaphor:GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS

Name Gloss	GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS
Name Transcription
Aliases	GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Primary
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Containing Roles:container, contents, contents_location, container_capacity, fullness_degree
Target Frame	Group Roles:group, members, sub-group, defining_properties

Mappings:

group	<=	container

members	<=	contents

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS
Relation Type	has as transitive subpart 1
Related Metaphor	GROUPS ARE PART-WHOLE STRUCTURES
Description

Current Metaphor	GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS
Relation Type	has as transitive subpart 2
Related Metaphor	WHOLES ARE CONTAINERS
Description

Entailments:

Examples:

Example Text:	This group contains twenty members.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:	"this group" = Group.group [Target]; "members" = Group.members [Target]; "contains" = Containing [Source]
Comments:

Example Text:	There are twenty members in this group.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments:

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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Group membership" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Group_membership" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Group" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Group" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Social group" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Social_group" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

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

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="POLITICAL PARTIES ARE CONTAINERS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:POLITICAL_PARTIES_ARE_CONTAINERS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="GROUPS ARE CONTAINERS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:GROUPS_ARE_CONTAINERS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is a target subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="GROUPS ARE PART-WHOLE STRUCTURES" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:GROUPS_ARE_PART-WHOLE_STRUCTURES" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n3 [label = "has as transitive subpart 1" fontsize="8.0" color="purple" ]; n4 [label="WHOLES ARE CONTAINERS" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:WHOLES_ARE_CONTAINERS" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n4 [label = "has as transitive subpart 2" fontsize="8.0" color="purple" ]; }

digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Building" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Building" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Containing" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Containing" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Fluid containment" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Fluid_containment" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

n4 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Vehicle" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Vehicle" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

n2 -> n6 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n7 [label="Containment" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Containment" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n7 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }