Interior_profile_relation

A Figure is located in the interior (the Profiled_region--see Locative_relation frame) of the Ground. Some members of this frame indicate the plexity of the Ground, as either single-entity gestalt (inside), two-entity or bi-partite gestalt (between.prep), and multiple-entity or multipart gestalt (among.prep, amid.prep), while others are maximally general (in.prep). This frame makes use of the Bounded_region image schema, a way of partitioning a scene into an Interior, an Exterior, and a Boundary. In some cases, the Boundary may be a physical entity that inhibits motion ("in a box"), while in other cases it may be based on a category boundary where properties change ("in the garden"). The LUs that specifically pick out two-entity or multi-entity Grounds imply the lack or irrelevancy of a physical barrier. The bookmark inside her book was torn and written on . My keys were in the street . Step back outside . CNI DNI She stood in a puddle and splashed desultorily . I felt around inside the oven hood . CNI They found the backpack and found a computer inside . DNI Within the base , nobody knew the attack was about to hit . We talked outside the office . This frame is intended to cover cases in which the Ground is a critical locus for the event. (When annotating the main verb in such a case, the locative phrase may be annotated on a second layer as Means, Instrument, or Cause.) The pole snapped off in her hand . She combed her hair between her fingers . In some very specific situations, a prepositional phrase 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 . As in other locative frames, the LUs interact productively with other lexical and non-lexical frames. One of the more confusing cases is with verbs involving gaze, in the which the Figure is specified by the governing verb to be the gaze of the viewer, and thus from the viewpoint of the locative LU is CNI. See the following: They looked among the trees for an hour . CNI This frame is used in several productive metaphor cases. One of the most frequent is the use of this frame to express an Entity (construed as a Figure) as a member of a category or state (construed as a Ground). Is the economy in recession ? There are good or bad weather days here , and nothing in between . DNI Another productive metaphor is referring to a mental entity or activity of a cognizer (construed as a Figure) as being located inside the cognizer or the cognizer's mind (construed as a Ground): You close your ears to the small voice within DNI I felt an unease inside me . It was as though a light had gone out somewhere inside of him . I had inside of me this feeling that something was going to happen . The frame can be used to talk about a member (construed as a Figure) being part of a group (construed as a Ground): Then mingle the most gruesomest , grisliest ghost stories in among your jokes . There are so many children in the family . Two uses of this frame are either productive or semi-productive, and we have annotated examples experimentally on the assumption that the metaphors may be productive: In the first and most common, Interior_profile_relation lexical units are used to describe the timing of events relative to other events or periods, with per target differentiation or homogeneity of the Ground events that serve as a reference, based on the literal use of a target: amid the confusion inside the competition period between lunch and dinner However, some members of this frame require that a time be construed (e.g. with the word "period") while others can take events as Grounds directly. In the second, some idea (construed as the Figure) is true in the context of a larger idea or text (construed as the Ground): In the paper , `` self-control '' is used to mean a sense of willpower . Inside the world he created , hobbits run wild . Again, the productivity of the this metaphor is uncertain because inside.prep, in among.prep, and some other members of this frame do not occur in this metaphor, or are strangely constrained and do not paraphrase similar examples with in.prep. This frame should not be used for cases in which the Ground element is a literal or metaphorical distance; see Within_distance.