Metaphor:MORE IS BIG
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Description | |
Metaphor Level | |
Metaphor Type | Entailed |
Experiential Basis |
Source Frame | Size Roles:entity, entity_size, size_scale, scalar_position
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Target Frame | Quantity Roles:entity, entity_amount, quantity_scale, measure_of_quantity
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Mappings:
Related Metaphors:
Current Metaphor | MORE IS BIG |
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Relation Type | is an entailment of |
Related Metaphor | QUANTITY IS SIZE |
Description |
Entailments:
Target Entailment | increases in quantity |
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Source Inference | increase in size |
Type of Inferential Structure | |
Entailed Metaphor(s) |
Examples:
Example Text: | He is trying to pay off his huge debt. |
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Provenance: | Ellen |
Example Text: | The city is expanding the number of recycling containers in parks. |
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Provenance: | Ellen |
Graph of related metaphors:
digraph meta4tggrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Quantity" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Quantity" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ]; n2 [label="Scale" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Scale" fontsize="10.0" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }
digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="ARITHMETIC IS OBJECT CONSTRUCTION" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:ARITHMETIC_IS_OBJECT_CONSTRUCTION" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"]; n2 [label="MORE IS BIG" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:MORE_IS_BIG" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "is related to" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; n3 [label="QUANTITY IS SIZE" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Metaphor:QUANTITY_IS_SIZE" fontsize="10.0" shape="box"];
n2 -> n3 [label = "is an entailment of" fontsize="8.0" color="orange" ]; }
digraph meta4srcgrph { rankdir="BT" n1 [label="Decrease size" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Decrease_size" fontsize="10.0" ]; n2 [label="Size" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Size" fontsize="10.0" penwidth=2 style="filled" fillcolor="lightgray" ];
n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Increase size" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Increase_size" fontsize="10.0" ];
n3 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n4 [label="Large geographic features" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Large_geographic_features" fontsize="10.0" ];
n4 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n5 [label="Object" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Object" fontsize="10.0" ];
n5 -> n2 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; n6 [label="Trajector landmark" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Trajector_landmark" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n6 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n7 [label="Scale" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Scale" fontsize="10.0" ];
n2 -> n7 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ];
n2 -> n5 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; }
Entailment | increases in quantity (increase in size, ?, ?) + |
Example | English (He is trying to pay off his huge debt., ?, ?, Ellen, ?, ?, ?) + and English (The city is expanding the number of recycling containers in parks., ?, ?, Ellen, ?, ?, ?) + |
Has source frame | Frame:Size + |
Has target frame | Frame:Quantity + |
Metaphor.Source frame | Frame:Size + |
Metaphor.Target frame | Frame:Quantity + |
Metaphor.Type | Entailed + |
Related metaphor | is an entailment of (QUANTITY IS SIZE, ?) + |
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:MORE IS BIG#Is_example_of + |