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Target Role: life_liver

Source Role: journeyerjourneyer

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Target Role: life_span

Source Role: journey_eventjourney_event

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Target Role: main_life_goal

Source Role: journey_destinationjourney_destination

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Target Role: short_term_life_goals

Source Role: journey_stopsjourney_stops

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Target Role: course_of_life

Source Role: path_traced_by_sequence_of_motionpath_traced_by_sequence_of_motion

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Target Role: life_stages

Source Role: locations_along_journeylocations_along_journey

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Target Role: life_difficulties

Source Role: journey_difficultiesjourney_difficulties

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Target Role: lifestyle

Source Role: manner_of_journeymanner_of_journey

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Target Role: life_companion

Source Role: journey_companionjourney_companion

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Target Role: relationships_in_life

Source Role: vehicles_in_journeyvehicles_in_journey

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Target Entailment: A purposeful life.

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Text: She hasn't gone as far in life as her parents had hoped.She hasn't gone as far in life as her parents had hoped.

Provenance: Grady 1998:113Grady 1998:113

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Text: His life has taken a good course.His life has taken a good course.

Provenance: Grady 1998:113Grady 1998:113

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Text: I go where my path leads me.I go where my path leads me.

Provenance: Grady 1998:113Grady 1998:113

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Text: I go where my path leads me.I go where my path leads me.

Provenance: Grady 1998:113Grady 1998:113

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Text: As I've traveled through life, I've made a lot of friends along the way.As I've traveled through life, I've made a lot of friends along the way.

Provenance: Grady 1998:113Grady 1998:113

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Text: He has changed his direction in life, and taken a more spiritual path.He has changed his direction in life, and taken a more spiritual path.

Provenance: Grady 1998:114Grady 1998:114

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Entailment	A purposeful life. (Sequence of motions towards a destination in a journey., ?, PURPOSE IN LIFE IS DESTINATION IN A JOURNEY) +
Example	English (She hasn't gone as far in life as her parents had hoped., ?, ?, Grady 1998:113, ?, ?, ?) +, English (His life has taken a good course., ?, ?, Grady 1998:113, ?, ?, ?) +, English (I go where my path leads me., ?, ?, Grady 1998:113, ?, ?, ?) +, English (As I've traveled through life, I've made a lot of friends along the way., ?, ?, Grady 1998:113, ?, ?, ?) + and English (He has changed his direction in life, and taken a more spiritual path., ?, ?, Grady 1998:114, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frame	Frame:Journey +
Has target frame	Frame:Life +
Mapping	life_liver (journeyer, ?) +, life_span (journey_event, ?) +, main_life_goal (journey_destination, ?) +, short_term_life_goals (journey_stops, ?) +, course_of_life (path_traced_by_sequence_of_motion, ?) +, life_stages (locations_along_journey, ?) +, life_difficulties (journey_difficulties, ?) +, lifestyle (manner_of_journey, ?) +, life_companion (journey_companion, ?) + and relationships_in_life (vehicles_in_journey, ?) +
Metaphor.Alias	HUMAN LIFE IS A JOURNEY (Kovecses, Metaphor: A Practical Introduction) +
Metaphor.Level	General +
Metaphor.Source frame	Frame:Journey +
Metaphor.Target frame	Frame:Life +
Metaphor.Type	Composed/complex +
Related metaphor	is in some target relation to (ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP IS A JOURNEY, activated) +, is both a source and target subcase of (ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION ALONG A PATH, ?) +, makes use of (VIRTUAL MOTION IS ACTUAL MOTION, ?) +, is a source subcase of (LIFE IS A SEQUENCE OF MOTIONS, ?) +, is related to (COURSE OF A LIFE IS THE PATH TRACED BY A SEQUENCE OF MOTIONS, The course of life is created by fictive motion metaphor) +, is both a source and target subcase of (PURPOSEFUL ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION TO A DESTINATION, ?) + and makes use of (RELATIONSHIP IS A BOUNDED REGION IN SPACE, ?) +
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:LIFE IS A JOURNEY#Is_example_of +

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