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Target Role: objective

Source Role: goal

Comment: I.e. PURPSOSES ARE DESIRED LOCATIONS: goal has binding to objective in Source domain frame, and objective is bound to Desire.desired_situation

Target Role: actor

Source Role: self-mover

Comment: self-mover has binding to actor in Source domain frame

Target Role: action_x-schema

Source Role: self-motion_x-schema

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Target Role: action_x-schema_kind

Source Role: path

Comment: a.k.a., MEANS ARE PATHS

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Target Entailment: amount of progress

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Target Entailment: achieving a purpose

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Type of Inferential Structure: x-schema stage

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Target Entailment: lack of purpose

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Target Entailment: making progress

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Target Entailment: amount of effort it takes to perform action

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Target Entailment: actor stops acting when objective is accomplished

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Target Entailment: another person guide action

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Text: She made great strides in her dissertation.


Provenance: Metaphor+

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Comments: Amount of progress is distance moved

Text: We are sliding backward.


Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (191)

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Comments: Undoing progress is backward movement

Text: We are moving ahead.


Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (191)

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Comments: Making progress is forward movement

Text: We are going nowhere with this.


Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (192)

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Comments: Lack of progress is lack of movement.

Text: We have taken the first step.


Provenance: Philosophy in the Flesh (191)

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Comments: Starting a purposeful action is starting out


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Entailmentamount of progress (distance moved towards goal, ?, AMOUNT OF PROGRESS IS AMOUNT OF DISTANCE MOVED) +, achieving a purpose (reaching a destination, x-schema stage, ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS REACHING A DESTINATION) +, lack of purpose (lack of direction, ?, ?) +, making progress (forward motion toward goal, ?, PROGRESS IS FORWARD MOTION ALONG A PATH) +, amount of effort it takes to perform action (amount of effort it takes to change location, ?, EASE OF ACTION IS EASE OF MOTION ALONG A PATH) +, actor stops acting when objective is accomplished (mover stops moving when destination (end of path) is reached, ?, END OF AN ACTION IS THE END OF A PATH) + and another person guide action (another person can lead mover along path, ?, GUIDED ACTION IS GUIDED MOTION ALONG A PATH) +
ExampleEnglish (She made great strides in her dissertation., ?, ?, Metaphor+, ?, Amount of progress is distance moved, ?) +, English (We are sliding backward., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (191), ?, Undoing progress is backward movement, ?) +, English (We are moving ahead., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (191), ?, Making progress is forward movement, ?) +, English (We are going nowhere with this., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (192), ?, Lack of progress is lack of movement., ?) + and English (We have taken the first step., ?, ?, Philosophy in the Flesh (191), ?, Starting a purposeful action is starting out, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Self propelled motion to a destination +
Has target frameFrame:Purposeful action +
Mappingobjective (goal, I.e. PURPSOSES ARE DESIRED LOCATIONS: goal has binding to objective in Source domain frame, and objective is bound to Desire.desired_situation) +, actor (self-mover, self-mover has binding to actor in Source domain frame) +, action_x-schema (self-motion_x-schema, ?) + and action_x-schema_kind (path, a.k.a., MEANS ARE PATHS) +
Metaphor.AliasPURPOSEFUL ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION TO A DESTINATION (PITF) + and PURPOSEFUL ACTION IS GOAL-DIRECTED MOTION (?) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Self propelled motion to a destination +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Purposeful action +
Metaphor.TypePrimary + and Entailed +
Related metaphoris an entailment of (ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION ALONG A PATH, entailed) + and is related to (MEANS ARE PATHS, (create relation type "has this as a mapping")) +
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