Locative_relation

A Figure is located relative to a Ground location. The cat is on the mat. The kitchen, with its breakfast / snack bar, adjoins on one side while the dining area adjoins on the other side. DNI The president's plane landed in Washington. Prepositions, adverbs, and spatial adjectives that act as targets in this frame and its descendants cooccur with a number of constructions that may supply extra information and should be annotated as extrathematic frame elements. The location of the Figure may be further specified by its Distance from the Ground along a vector implied by the targets image schema, or the Direction in which the Figure lies from a reference location (generally, the deictic center). In cases where both seem to cooccur, the Distance actually modifies the Direction, as seen in the following example: This pup was lying abandoned, 350 feet down at the bottom of an Arizona canyon. There is no sense in which the Distance is measured using the schema for at.prep ('350 feet at the bottom of the canyon' doesn't mean the right thing at all); rather the distance is measured using the schema for down.adv, and is thus considered a modifier of the Direction FE. In some very specific situations, prepositions, adjectives, and nouns can be used with a copula to describe the whole Profiled_region where a Figure is or could be, as in the following: Inside my wallet is where I put it . Outside your blind date's door seems like the worst place in the world .