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ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS REACHING A DESTINATION
MORALITY IS A BUILDING
MORALITY IS GOOD / IMMORALITY IS BAD
A LINE OF REASON IS A PATH
ABILITY TO ACT IS ABILITY TO MOVE
ABILITY TO EVALUATE GOVERNMENT IS ABILITY TO SEE
ABILITY TO EVALUATE IS ABILITY TO SEE
ABSTRACT COMPLEX SYSTEM IS HUMAN BODY
ACCEPTING IDEAS IS SWALLOWING
ACCEPTING IS SWALLOWING
ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS ACQUIRING A DESIRED OBJECT
ACHIEVING A PURPOSE IS GETTING SOMETHING TO EAT
ACHIEVING POWER IS MOVING UPWARDS
ACQUIRING IDEAS IS EATING
ACQUIRING RESOURCE IS CONSUMING FOOD
ACTION IS BEING IN A LOCATION
ACTION IS MOTION
ACTION IS MOTION ALONG A PATH
ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION ALONG A PATH
ACTIVITIES ARE BOUNDED REGIONS IN SPACE
ACTIVITIES ARE JOURNEYS
ACTIVITIES ARE JOURNEYS
ADDRESSING POVERTY IS TREATING AN ILLNESS
AFFECTION IS WARMTH
AID TO KNOWING IS CLEARNESS
AID TO KNOWING IS LIGHT
AIDS TO ACHIEVING A PURPOSE ARE AIDS TO REACHING A DESTINATION
AIRSPACE IS A_CONTAINER
ALLIANCES ARE FRIENDSHIPS
AMOUNT OF PROGRESS IS AMOUNT OF DISTANCE MOVED
AMOUNT OF RESOURCE IS BODY WEIGHT
AN ABSTRACT COMPLEX SYSTEM IS A BUILDING
AN AID TO KNOWING IS AN AID TO VISION
AN IMPEDIMENT TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS ENVIRONMENTAL CONFINEMENT
AN IMPEDIMENT TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS WATER CONFINEMENT
ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS DIAGNOSIS OF AFFLICTION
ANGER IS A ORGANISM THAT GROWS
ANGER IS AN OBJECT / LIQUID THAT IS CANALIZED
ANGER IS AN OBJECT / LOCATION THAT IS
ANGER IS AN OBJECT METAL THAT IS STEELED
ANGER IS AN OBJECT THAT IS MANIFESTED
ANGER IS AN OBJECT THAT IS SHOOTED
ANGER IS AN OBJECT THAT IS THROWN (OUT)
ANGER IS AN OBJECT THAT ONE HIDES
ANGER IS COGNIZER THAT AWAKENS
ATTRIBUTES ARE ENTITIES
ATTRIBUTES ARE ENTITIES
ATTRIBUTES ARE ENTITIES
ATTRIBUTES ARE POSSESSIONS
BAD IS DOWN
BECOMING IMPOVERISHED IS MOVING DOWNWARDS
BEING (UN)ABLE TO KNOW IS BEING (UN)ABLE TO SEE
BEING GOOD IS BEING UPRIGHT
BEING IMMORAL IS BEING LOW
BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING AT A LOW LOCATION
BEING IMPOVERISHED IS BEING IN A BOUNDED REGION
BEING IN A HIGH SOCIAL CLASS IS BEING HIGH ON A SCALE
BEING IN A LOW SOCIAL CLASS IS BEING LOW ON A SCALE
BEING UNABLE TO THINK IS BEING UNABLE TO MOVE
BEING WEALTHY IS BEING AT A HIGH LOCATION
BEING WEALTHY IS BEING AT A HIGH LOCATION
BEING WEALTHY IS BEING FREE
BODY IS A_CONTAINER FOR EMOTIONS
BUDGET IS A CONTAINER
BUREACRACY IS A MACHINE
BUREACRACY IS A MAZE
BUREACRACY IS AN OCTOPUS
BUSINESS IS WAR
CAREER IS A JOURNEY
CASH IS LIQUID
CAUSATION IS OBJECT TRANSFER
CAUSE IS A SOURCE
CAUSED CHANGE OF STATE IS CAUSED CHANGE OF LOCATION
CAUSED IMPOVERISHMENT IS CAUSED DOWNWARD MOTION
CAUSED IMPROVED ECONOMIC STATUS IS CAUSED UPWARD MOTION
CAUSED INABILITY TO ACT IS PREVENTION OF MOTION ALONG A PATH
CAUSES ARE FORCES
CENSORSHIP IS PHYSICAL RESTRAINING OF MOUTH
CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF LOCATION
CHANGE OF STATE IS CHANGE OF POSSESSION
CHANGE OF_STATE IS ACQUISITION OF_OBJECT
CHANGE OF_STATE IS LOSS OF_OBJECT
CIRCUMSTANCES ARE SURROUNDINGS
CITIZENS ARE STOCKHOLDERS
COGNIZING IS BODILY FUNCTIONING
COMMUNICATING IS SHOWING
COMMUNICATION IS GIDING
COMPETITION IS WAR
CONSIDERING IS CHEWING
CONTROL IN A FINANCIAL SITUATION IS CONTROL IN LIQUID
CONTROL IS A BOUNDED REGION
CONTROL IS AN OBJECT IN THE POSSESSION OF THE OBSERVER
CONTROL IS PHYSICAL RESTRAINT
CONTROL IS UP
CONTROL IS VERTICALITY
CORRUPTION IS A DISEASE
DEBT IS PHYSICAL IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION
DEGREE OF WEALTH DISTRIBUTION IS CONCENTRATION
DETAILED EXPLAINING IS DRAWING
DIFFERENCES IN WEALTH IS DIFFERENCES IN DISTANCE
DIFFERENT MEANS OF ACHIEVING A PURPOSE ARE DIFFERENT PATHS TO A DESTINATION
DIFFICULTIES ARE IMPEDIMENTS TO MOVEMENT
DIFFICULTY IS HEAVINESS
DISGUST IS AN OBJECT THAT IS SUPPRESSED
DOING EVIL IS FALLING
EASE OF ACTION IS EASE OF MOTION ALONG A_PATH
ECONOMIC HARDSHIP IS PHYSICAL HARM
ECONOMIC RESOURCE IS A LIMITED NATURAL RESOURCE
ECONOMIC RESOURCES ARE PHYSICAL ENTITIES
ECONOMIC STATUS IS A POINT ON A SCALE
ECONOMY IS A BODY
ECONOMY IS A MACHINE
EDUCATION IS AN OBJECT
EMOTION IS A PERSON
EMOTION IS A STATE
EMOTION IS FORCE
EMOTIONAL INTIMACY IS PHYSICAL PROXIMITY
EMOTIONS ARE SUBSTANCES
END OF AN ACTION IS THE END OF A PATH
ESSENTIAL IS INTERNAL
EVENTS ARE CONTAINERS
EVENTS ARE OBJECTS
EVIL IS DARK
EXCESS WEALTH ARE LARGE GEOGRAPHIC FEATURES
EXCESS WEALTH IS DISGUSTING
EXCESS WEALTH IS EXCESS BODY WEIGHT
EXCESS WEALTH IS OBSCENE
EXPERIENCE OF A STATE IS SPATIAL RELATION WITH AN ENTITY
EXPERIENCED STATE IS A PROXIMATE OBJECT
EXPERIENCING A STATE IS POSSESSING AN OBJECT
EXPERIENCING AN ECONOMIC STATUS IS BEING AT A LOCATION
FEAR IS A COMMUNICATOR THAT SPEEKS
FEAR IS A CONTAINER
FEAR IS A MOVING OBJECT
FEAR IS A PERSON / SUPERIOR / OPPONENT THAT IS OVERRULED
FEAR IS AN AGENT OWNER THAT GETS X
FEAR IS AN AGENT THAT WORKS
FEAR IS AN OBJECT THAT DISSAPEARS
FEAR IS AN OBJECT THAT EXISTS
FEAR IS AN OBJECT THAT HAS SIZE
FEAR IS AN OBJECT THAT IS SHARED
FINANCIAL RESOURCES ARE PHYSICAL RESOURCES
FORCE TRANSFER IS OBJECT TRANSFER
FORCE TRANSFER IS OBJECT TRANSFER
FORCES ARE OBJECTS
GAIN/LOSS OF MONEY IS MOVEMENT OF A LIQUID
GAINING EXCESS WEALTH IS EATING TO EXCESS
GOAL IS AN OBJECT IN A SUPRALOCAL RELATION
GOOD IS UP
GOODNESS IS LIGHT
GOVERNMENT IS A BUSINESS
GOVERNMENT IS A CORPORATION
GOVERNMENT IS A PARENT
GROUND IS AN OBJECT IN A SUBLOCAL SPATIAL RELATION
GUILT IS AN OBJECT THAT IS HAMMERED ON
GUILT IS AN OBJECT THAT IS SHARED
GUILT IS OBJECT THAT IS THROWN
HAPPINESS IS AN OBJECT THAT IS GIVEN /A GIFT
IDEAS ARE FOOD
IDEAS ARE LOCATIONS
IDEAS ARE OBJECTS
IDEAS ARE RESOURCES
IMMORALITY IS DISEASE
IMMORALITY IS IMPURITY
IMMORALITY IS WEAKNESS
IMPEDIMENT TO KNOWING IS BLINDNESS
IMPEDIMENT TO KNOWING IS DARKNESS
IMPEDIMENT TO KNOWING IS UNCLEARNESS
IMPEDIMENT TO KNOWLEDGE IS IMPEDIMENT TO VISION
IMPEDIMENTS TO ACTION ARE PHYSICAL IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION
IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS ARE CONFUSING PATHS TO MOVING OUT OF A LOCATION
IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS CONSTRUCTED CONFINEMENT
IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS ENVIRONMENTAL RESTRAINTS
IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS PHYSICAL BURDEN
IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS PHYSICAL IMPEDIMENTS TO MOTION
IMPEDIMENTS TO IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS WATER CONFINEMENT
IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS MOVING OUT OF A LOCATION
IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS MOVING OUT OF AN UNDESIRABLE LOCATION
IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS UPWARD MOTION
IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS UPWARD MOTION
INSTRUMENTS ARE COMPANIONS
INSURMOUNTABLE DIFFERENCES IN WEALTH IS BARRIER TO ACCESSING A LOCATION
INSURMOUNTABLE DIFFERENCES IN WEALTH IS INSURMOUNTABLE DIFFERENCES IN DISTANCE
INVESTMENTS ARE CONTAINERS FOR MONEY
JOINING ANOTHER IN AN INVESTMENT IS MIXING LIQUIDS
JOY IS AN OBJECT THAT IS CARRIED
JOY IS AN OBJECT THAT IS FOUND
JOY IS AN OBJECT THAT IS GIVEN
JOY IS AN OBJECT THAT IS TASTED
JOY IS AN OBJECT THAT ONE DOES NOT HIDE
JOY IS COGNIZER THAT AWAKENS FROM SLEEP
KNOWING IS SEEING
LEADING A GROUP IS DRIVING A VEHICLE
LEADING A NATION IS DRIVING A VEHICLE
LESS IS DOWN
LIFE IS A JOURNEY
LIFE IS PRESENCE
LOCUS OF MIND IS IN THE HEAD
LOVE IS A CONTAINER
LOVE IS A JOURNEY
LOVE IS AN OBJECT THAT CAN BE LOST
LOVE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS FOUND
LOVE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS GIVEN
LOVE IS AN OBJECT THAT ONE GETS
LOWERING ON A SCALE IS FALLING
MANNER OF ACTION IS MANNER OF MOVEMENT
MARKET IS A BATTLEFIELD
MARKET IS A NATURAL PROCESS
MARKET IS FAMILY
MEANS ARE PATHS
MEANS OF IMPROVING ECONOMIC STATUS IS A PATH TO MOVING OUT OF A LOCATION
MEMORIZING IS PUTTING OBJECTS INTO THE_CONTAINER
MEMORY IS A_STOREHOUSE
MIND IS A BIG/SMALL CONTAINER
MIND IS A BODY
MIND IS A COMPUTER
MIND IS A DEEP/SHALLOW CONTAINER
MIND IS A DRIVER
MIND IS A MACHINE
MIND IS A WEIGHT ON A SCALE
MIND IS AN OBJECT
MIND IS AN OPEN/CLOSED CONTAINER
MIND IS GOVERNOR
MIND IS PURE LIQUID
MONEY IS A SOLID SUBSTANCE
MONEY IS A SUBSTANCE
MONEY IS LIQUID
MONEY WHICH CANNOT BE ACCESSED IS FROZEN
MORAL IS STRAIGHT
MORALITY IS STRENGTH
MORALITY IS A RESOURCE
MORALITY IS A STRAIGHT PATH
MORALITY IS AN OBJECT
MORALITY IS HEALTH
MORALITY IS LAW
MORALITY IS LIGHT / IMMORALITY IS DARKNESS
MORALITY IS PHYSICAL HEIGHT
MORALITY IS POSSESSION
MORALITY IS PURITY
MORALITY IS PURITY / IMMORALITY IS IMPURITY
MORALITY IS SCALE
MORALITY IS STRENGTH / IMMORALITY IS WEAKNESS
MORALITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF SOCIETY
MORE IS UP
MUSIC IS MOTION
NATION IS A BODY
NATION IS A BUILDING
NATION IS A BUSINESS
NATION IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE
NATION IS A FAMILY
NATION IS A PERSON
NEARBY COUNTRIES ARE NEIGHBORS
NOT BEING ABLE TO ACT IS BEING IN A MAZE
OPPORTUNITIES ARE OBJECTS
OPPORTUNITIES ARE OPEN PATHS
POLITICAL PARTIES ARE PEOPLE
POLITICIANS ARE STAGE ACTORS
POVERTY IS A CRIME
POVERTY IS A DISEASE
POVERTY IS A FIERCE CREATURE
POVERTY IS A MOTION IMPEDIMENT
POVERTY IS A PLANT
POVERTY IS A WEED
POVERTY IS PHYSICAL HARM
PREPARING IDEAS TO BE UNDERSTOOD IS FOOD PREPARATION
PRIDE IS A VALUABLE OBJECT THAT IS DEFENDED
PRIDE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS (NOT) HIDDEN
PRIDE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS LOST
PRIDE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS POINTED OUT
PRIDE IS AN OBJECT THAT IS STEPPED ON
PRIDE IS COGNIZER THAT AWAKENS
PROCESS IS MOTION
PROFIT IS A CROP
PROFIT IS A POINT ON A SCALE
PROFIT IS A RESOURCE
PROFIT IS A VALUABLE RESOURCE
PROFIT IS HARDLY ACCESIBLE RESOURCE
PROGRESS IS FORWARD MOTION ALONG A PATH
PSYCHOLOGICAL BENEFIT IS PHYSICAL BENEFIT
PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC IS A PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC
PSYCHOLOGICAL FORCES ARE PHYSICAL FORCES
PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING IS PHYSICAL FUNCTIONING
PSYCHOLOGICALLY UNACCEPTABLE IS PHYSICALLY UNACCEPTABLE
PURPOSEFUL ACTION IS GOAL-DIRECTED MOTION
PURPOSEFUL ACTION IS SELF-PROPELLED MOTION TO A_DESTINATION
PURPOSEFUL THINKING IS GOAL-DIRECTED MOTION
PURPOSES ARE DESTINATIONS
REMEMBERING IS OBJECT RETRIEVAL
RISING ON A SCALE IS GROWTH
SADNESS IS A DESEASE
SADNESS IS AN OBJECT / DESIGNATION THAT CAN BE ERASED
SADNESS IS AN OBJECT THAT IS CARRIED
SADNESS IS AN OBJECT THAT IS SHARED
SADNESS IS AN OBJECT THAT ONE LOOKS AT
SADNESS IS COGNIZER THAT AWAKENS
SCALAR CHANGE IS MOTION ALONG A PATH
SCALES ARE PATHS
SEQUENCES OF EVENTS ARE FLUIDS
SHAME IS AN OBJECT THAT IS LOST
SIMILARITY IS CLOSENESS
SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES
SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE PHYSICAL AFFLICTIONS
SOCIETY IS BUILDING
SOCIETY IS HUMAN BODY
STATES ARE LOCATIONS
STATES ARE PHYSICAL OBJECTS
SUBSERVIENT IS AN ENTITY IN A SUBLOCAL RELATION
THE_MIND IS A_CONTAINER
THINKING ABOUT X IS MOVING IN THE AREA AROUND X
THINKING IS LINGUISTIC ACTIVITY
THINKING IS MOVING
THINKING IS OBJECT MANIPULATION
THINKING IS PERCEIVING
THINKING IS WEIGHING
THOUGHT IS A CONTAINER
THOUGHT IS A MOVING ENTITY
THOUGHTS ARE LOCATIONS
THOUGHTS ARE OBJECTS
TIME CHANGES OTHER OBJECTS
TIME IS A CONTAINER
TIME IS A LANDSCAPE THROUGH WHICH THE OBSERVER MOVES
TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT
TIME IS A PURSUER
TIME IS A RESOURCE
TIME IS A SUBSTANCE
TIME IS AN ENTITY
TIME IS MONEY
TIME IS MOTION
TIME IS SOMETHING MOVING TOWARD YOU
UNACCEPTABLE IDEAS ARE UNPALATABLE FOOD
UNDERSTANDING IS DIGESTING
UNDERSTANDING IS FOLLOWING
UNDERSTANDING IS GRASPING
UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING
WEALTH IS LINEAR SPATIAL SCALE
WEALTH IS SLAVERY
WEALTHY PEOPLE ARE PARASITES
WELLBEING IS STRENGTH
WELLBEING IS VERTICALITY
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Ablative spatial relation
Abstract Complex System
Abstract entity
Accepting
Acting
Action
Activity
Adlative spatial relation
Adlocative spatial relation
Airspace
Alliance
Animal
Artifact
Attribute
Attribute
Auditory perception
Bad
Battlefield
Being
Blindness
Blurriness
Bodily functioning
Body
Body part
Bounded_region
Building
Bureacracy
Business
Career
Causation
Caused change of state
Censorship
Change
Chewing
Child
Circumstances
Citizen evaluation of government
Clarity
Closeness
Cognizing
Cognizing
Communication
Competition
Complex structure
Computer
Conflict
Consuming
Containment
Contralocative spatial relation
Control
Corporation
Corruption
Country
Crime
Crop
Darkness
Deliberation
Destination
Difficulty
Digestion
Disease
Distal spatial relation
Down
Drawing
Driving a vehicle
Eating
Economic hardship
Economic resource
Economic status
Economy
Education
Emotion
Entity
Essence
Evaluation
Event
Evil
Explaining
External body part
Falling
Family
Fashion
Father
Financial resource
Flight
Fluid
Following
Food
Force
Forced motion
Freedom
Friendship
Gain
Giving
Good
Governing_action
Government
Growth
Hand
Hardship
Head
Health
Heat
Height
High location
High social class
Idea
Immorality
Impediment
Impurity
Inside
Instrument
Intelligence
Internal body part
Intimacy
Investment
Juvenile
Knowledge
Law
Leading
Life
Light
Light source
Linguistic activity
Living thing
Location
Loss
Love
Low location
Low social class
Machine
Market
Mass
Matter
MAZE
Measure
Memory
Mind
Money
Morality
Mother
MOTION
Motion along a_path
Motion to a_destination
Move closer
move.away
Moving downwards
Moving upwards
Music
Musical scale
Nation
Natural resource
Neighbour
Object
Object manipulation
Octopus
Opportunity
Organism
Parent
Part
Part/whole
Path
Perception
Person
Physical affliction
Physical entity
Physical harm
Physical property
Pitch space
Plant
Point on a scale
Political party
Politician
Politics
Possession
Postlocal spatial relation
Poverty
Power
Prelocal spatial relation
Preparing food
Presence
Process
Profit
Progress
Psychological feature
Psychological functioning
Purity
Purpose
Quantity
Reading
Recieving
Region
Remembering
Resource
Restraint
Scale
Seeing
Seeing
Seeing
Showing
Similarity
Situation
Slavery
Social class
Social problem
Society
Source_path_goal
Speech
Stage actor
State
Storehouse
Storing
Straight
Strength
Sublocal spatial relation
Substance
Supralocal spatial relation
Swallowing
Thought
to have
Trajector - landmark
Transfer scenario
Travel
Treating an illness
Understanding
Up
Vehicle
Verticality
Visual_perception
War
Weakness
Wealth
weather/time
Weight
Wellbeing
Whole
Work scenario
Writing
Choose a family
Choose a family
Anger metaphors
Cascade metaphors
Democracy metaphors
Disgust metaphors
Economics Metaphors
Education metaphors
Emotion Metaphors
Event Structure Metaphor
Fear metaphors
Governance metaphors
Jealousy metaphors
Location Event Structure Metaphor
Love metaphors
Metaphors of guilt
Mind as Body Metaphors
MIND METAPHORS
Morality metaphors
Object Event Structure Metaphor
Ontological Metaphors
Orientational Metaphors
Politics metaphors
Possession metaphors
Poverty metaphors
Pride metaphors
Primary metaphors
Psychological metaphors
Sadness metaphors
Scale metaphors
Scale metaphors
Shame metaphors
Socio-political Metaphors
Surprise metaphors
Thinking Is Moving Metaphor
Thinking Is Object Manipulation Metaphor
Time metaphors
Wealth metaphors
Well-being metaphors
Abstract entity frames
Action frames
Body frames
Causation frames
Cognition frames
Communication frames
Emotion frames
Entity frames
Food and eating frames
Force dynamic frames
Governance frames
Image Schemas
Living entity frames
Location frames
Motion frames
Perception frames
Physical object frames
Possession frames
Psychological frames
Socio-political frames
Spatial relations
X-Schemas
action_x-schema
actor
addressee
affected
Agent
aircraft
airspace
amount
area
background
Basis of evaluation
Behavior
bodily_effect
body
bodypart
boundary
causal_process
cause
cause_of_emotion
Causer
cognizer
component
Container
cook
direction
donor
education_content
education_learner
effect
effector
effort
emotion
emotion_level
emotion_limit
emotional_action
Evaluation
Evaluator
evaluee
experience
experiencer
exterior
face_appearance
food
food_consumer
force
force_amount
forceful_action
function
goal
governed
governing_action_outcome
governing_action_x-schema
governing_actor
governing_objectives
impeded_entity
impediment
impression
interior
intermediate values
landmark
listener
Location
material
maximum value
means_of_travel
message
mind
minimal value
motion_x-schema
motion_x-schema
mover
musical piece
object
objective
Owner
parameter
part
path
Perceiver
performer
Phenomenon
pilot
Portal
Possesion
possessor
process
process_completed_state
process_continue
process_end
process_initial_state
process_pause
process_resume
process_start
process_stop
profiled region
property
propulsion
protagonist
recipient
source
speaker
speed
Standard
Substance
Theme
tone
trajector
transfer_recipient
transfer_recipient_process
transferor
transferor_process
transferred_object
traveler
type
use
work_activity
worker
workplace
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