Metaphor:LESS IS DOWN
Aliases | QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Primary, Entailed |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Verticality Roles:vertical_axis, verticality_scale, scalar_position, vertical_entity
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Target Frame | Quantity Roles:entity, entity_amount, quantity_scale, measure_of_quantity
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Mappings:
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | LESS IS DOWN |
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Relation Type | is an entailment of |
Related Metaphor | QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | decreases in quantity |
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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. |
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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" ]; }
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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" ]; }
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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" ]; }
Entailment | decreases in quantity (motion towards lower end of verticality scale, scalar change, DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION) + |
Example | English (Her temperature is going down., ?, ?, ?, ?, Also an image metaphor: the level of mercury on the thermometer changes position., ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Verticality + |
Has target frame | Frame:Quantity + |
Metaphor.Alias | QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY (?) + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Verticality + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Quantity + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + and Entailed + |
Related metaphor | is 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 + |