Metaphor:REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT

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Name Gloss REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT
Name Transcription
Aliases
Description
Metaphor Level Specific
Metaphor Type Composed/complex
Experiential Basis
Source Frame Tending to plants
Roles:gardener, plant, gardening_activity
Target Frame Law
Roles:


Mappings:


Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT
Relation Type is an entailment of
Related Metaphor LAWS ARE PLANTS
Description

Entailments:


Examples:

Example Text: I concede that it has become indispensable to prune legislation, but it seems to me that this must be done with prudence and thought.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance: http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/icg-gci/norm/index.html
Annotation:
Comments:

Graph of related metaphors:

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n2 -> n3 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }

ExampleEnglish (I concede that it has become indispensable to prune legislation, but it seems to me that this must be done with prudence and thought., ?, ?, http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/icg-gci/norm/index.html, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Tending to plants +
Has target frameFrame:Law +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelSpecific +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Tending to plants +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Law +
Metaphor.TypeComposed/complex +
Related metaphoris an entailment of (LAWS ARE PLANTS, ?) +
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:REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT#Is_example_of +