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Target Role: corrupt_activities

Source Role: decaying_process

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Target Role: corruption_affectee

Source Role: decayed_entity

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Target Role: corrupting_effect

Source Role: decaying_effect

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Text: Stopping the rot in public life.


Provenance: http://www.economist.com/node/367915

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ExampleEnglish (Stopping the rot in public life., ?, ?, http://www.economist.com/node/367915, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Decay +
Has target frameFrame:Corruption +
Mappingcorrupt_activities (decaying_process, x-schema: progressive, slow, ongoing) +, corruption_affectee (decayed_entity, ?) + and corrupting_effect (decaying_effect, ?) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Decay +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Corruption +
Metaphor.TypeComposed/complex +
Related metaphoris in some target relation to (CORRUPTION IS A DISEASE, ?) + and is a source subcase of (CORRUPTION IS A DESTRUCTIVE NATURAL PROCESS, ?) +
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Metaphor:CORRUPTION IS DECAY#Is_example_of +