Metaphor:POVERTY IS A WEED
Aliases | |
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Description | e.g. "the strangling weeds of poverty" |
Metaphor Level | |
Metaphor Type | |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Weed Roles:
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Target Frame | Poverty Roles:impoverished_entity, impoverished_state, cause_of_impoverished_state, degree of poverty, amount of resources
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Mappings:
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | POVERTY IS A WEED |
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Relation Type | is a source subcase of |
Related Metaphor | POVERTY IS A PLANT |
Description |
Entailments:
Examples:
Example Text: | We are not free from the creeping vines of poverty. |
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Provenance: | http://keenveneracion.blogspot.com/2009/09/we-can-again.html |
Comments: | From out Gold Standard. |
Example Text: | Mother Martha is working to loosen the strangling weeds of poverty and watching children blossom and thrive under her care. |
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Provenance: | http://www.childrensdefense.org/library/data/2013-sabbath-manual/documents/devotional-guide-2013.pdf |
Graph of related metaphors:
digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Addressing poverty" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Addressing_poverty" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Poverty" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Poverty" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; n3 [label="Impoverished" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Impoverished" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Wealth" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Wealth" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; n5 [label="Economic status" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Economic_status" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n5 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ];
n2 -> n4 [label = "is in a scalar opposition to" fontsize="8.0" ]; n6 [label="Social problems" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Social_problems" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n6 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n7 [label="Causation" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Causation" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n7 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="POVERTY IS A WEED" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:POVERTY_IS_A_WEED" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="POVERTY IS A PLANT" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:POVERTY_IS_A_PLANT" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Weed" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Weed" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Plants" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Plants" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
Example | English (We are not free from the creeping vines of poverty., ?, ?, http://keenveneracion.blogspot.com/2009/09/we-can-again.html, ?, From out Gold Standard., ?) + and English (Mother Martha is working to loosen the strangling weeds of poverty and watching children blossom and thrive under her care., ?, ?, http://www.childrensdefense.org/library/data/2013-sabbath-manual/documents/devotional-guide-2013.pdf, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has description | e.g. "the strangling weeds of poverty" + |
Has source frame | Frame:Weed + |
Has target frame | Frame:Poverty + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Weed + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Poverty + |
Related metaphor | is a source subcase of (POVERTY IS A PLANT, ?) + |
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:POVERTY IS A WEED#Is_example_of + |