Metaphor:REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | Specific |
Metaphor Type | Composed/complex |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Tending to plants Roles:gardener, plant, gardening_activity
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Target Frame | Law Roles:
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Mappings:
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | REFINING A LAW IS TRIMMING A PLANT |
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Relation Type | is an entailment of |
Related Metaphor | LAWS ARE PLANTS |
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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. |
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Provenance: | http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/pi/icg-gci/norm/index.html |
Graph of related metaphors:
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n2 -> n3 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }
Example | English (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 frame | Frame:Tending to plants + |
Has target frame | Frame:Law + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | Specific + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Tending to plants + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Law + |
Metaphor.Type | Composed/complex + |
Related metaphor | is 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 + |