Metaphor:LESS IS DOWN

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Name Gloss LESS IS DOWN
Name Transcription
Aliases

QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY

Description
Metaphor Level General
Metaphor Type Primary, Entailed
Experiential Basis
Source Frame Verticality
Roles:vertical_axis, verticality_scale, scalar_position, vertical_entity
Target Frame Quantity
Roles:entity, entity_amount, quantity_scale, measure_of_quantity


Mappings:


Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor LESS IS DOWN
Relation Type is an entailment of
Related Metaphor QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment decreases in quantity
Source Inference motion towards lower end of verticality scale
Type of Inferential Structure scalar change
Entailed Metaphor(s) DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION

Examples:

Example Text: Her temperature is going down.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:
Annotation:
Comments: Also an image metaphor: the level of mercury on the thermometer changes position.

Graph of related metaphors:

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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:DECREASE_IN_QUANTITY_IS_DOWNWARD_MOTION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="LESS IS DOWN" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:LESS_IS_DOWN" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];

n1 -> n2 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; n3 [label="QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:QUANTITY_IS_VERTICALITY" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }

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

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

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

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

n5 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n6 [label="Motion along a path" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Motion_along_a_path" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

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

n2 -> n8 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }

Facts about "LESS IS DOWN"
Entailmentdecreases in quantity (motion towards lower end of verticality scale, scalar change, DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION) +
ExampleEnglish (Her temperature is going down., ?, ?, ?, ?, Also an image metaphor: the level of mercury on the thermometer changes position., ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Verticality +
Has target frameFrame:Quantity +
Metaphor.AliasQUANTITY IS VERTICALITY (?) +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Verticality +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Quantity +
Metaphor.TypePrimary + and Entailed +
Related metaphoris an entailment of (QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY, ?) +
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:LESS IS DOWN#Is_example_of +