Metaphor:ACTION IS BEING IN A LOCATION
Aliases | AN ACTION IS BEING IN A LOCATION (Philosophy in the Flesh,204-205) PERFORMING AN ACTION IS BEING AT A LOCATION |
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | General |
Metaphor Type | Primary |
Experiential Basis | some actions can only be performed when the actor is in a particular location |
Source Frame | Being at a location Roles:experiencer, current_location, locale, x-schema, landmark
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Target Frame | Action Roles:actor, action_x-schema, effector, effort
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Mappings:
actor | <= | experiencer |
action_x-schema | <= | landmark |
Related Metaphors:
Entailments:
Target Entailment | action is ongoing |
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Source Inference | the trajector's location (profiled_region) is at/in the landmark |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | the actor does not perform an action |
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Source Inference | the trajector is not at the landmark |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | 'closeness' to performing an action |
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Source Inference | 'closeness' to landmark |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Target Entailment | expecting to perform an action in the future |
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Source Inference | moving towards a landmark |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Examples:
Example Text: | The car is in motion. |
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Provenance: | Ellen |
Annotation: | "The car" = actor [Target]; "in" = trajector is in landmark [Source]; "motion" = action [Target] |
Example Text: | I'm going to leave. |
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Provenance: | PITF |
Annotation: | "I" = actor [Target];"going to" = motion towards landmark [Source]; "leave" = action [Target] |
Example Text: | She's close to resigning. |
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Provenance: | PITF |
Annotation: | "she" = actor [Target]; "close to" = distance to landmark [Source]; "resigning" = action [Target] |
Graph of related metaphors:
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n4 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Freedom of action" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Freedom_of_action" fontsize="10.0" ];
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n2 -> n8 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
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n4 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Change of location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Change_of_location" fontsize="10.0" ];
n5 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n6 [label="Placing in a protected location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Placing_in_a_protected_location" fontsize="10.0" ];
n6 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n7 [label="Location" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Location" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n7 [label = "is a perspective on" fontsize="8.0" ]; n8 [label="Trajector landmark" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Trajector_landmark" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n8 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n9 [label="Process" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Process" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n9 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }
Entailment | action is ongoing (the trajector's location (profiled_region) is at/in the landmark, ?, ?) +, the actor does not perform an action (the trajector is not at the landmark, ?, ?) +, 'closeness' to performing an action ('closeness' to landmark, ?, ?) + and expecting to perform an action in the future (moving towards a landmark, ?, ?) + |
Example | English (The car is in motion., ?, ?, Ellen, "The car" = actor [Target], "in" = trajector is in landmark [Source], "motion" = action [Target]) +, English (I'm going to leave., ?, ?, PITF, "I" = actor [Target], "going to" = motion towards landmark [Source], "leave" = action [Target]) + and English (She's close to resigning., ?, ?, PITF, "she" = actor [Target], "close to" = distance to landmark [Source], "resigning" = action [Target]) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Being at a location + |
Has target frame | Frame:Action + |
Mapping | actor (experiencer, ?) + and action_x-schema (landmark, ?) + |
Metaphor.Alias | AN ACTION IS BEING IN A LOCATION (Philosophy in the Flesh) + and PERFORMING AN ACTION IS BEING AT A LOCATION (?) + |
Metaphor.Experiential basis | some actions can only be performed when the actor is in a particular location + |
Metaphor.Investigated for | English + |
Metaphor.Level | General + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Being at a location + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Action + |
Metaphor.Type | Primary + |
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:ACTION IS BEING IN A LOCATION#Is_example_of + |