Frame Report

The Figure is perceived as in motion relative to a certain Ground location.

The Ground serves as a basis for describing the location of the Figure somewhere in the midst of their motion or during the entirety of the motion event.

The region within which a Figure might be found. This FE is exclusive of Figure, and is a reconstrual that is not possible with verb lexical units.

[Past the kitchen|Profiled_region] is the path she chose .

The Figures are items conceived of as moving with respect to each other.

The period of time during which the locative relation between Figure and Ground obtains.

An indication of how accessible the Figure is to some participant in the speech context (either the speaker or the addressee, or some other highly salient viewpoint in a narrative). This FE normally describes availability for manipulation and use, but may simply describe how easily seen or difficult to see the Figure is. There is a closed class of items that can fill this slot, including only 'just' and 'right' indicating ease of access, and 'way', 'all the way', or (dialectally) 'clear' indicating distance and difficulty of access.

Oh yeah , the flashlight 's right in my handbag.
I had an uncle that lived clear over in Kenmore , and I tried to ride my bike there.

While ease of access correlates with proximal deixis (e.g. 'right here') and difficulty correlates with distal deixis (e.g. 'all the way over there'), these notions are separable as shown in the following examples:

I have two officers right over in the next room.
You ca n't come way out here to my mom 's!

An indication of how the locative phrase relates to the grounding of the speech situation, either locating it near (here) or far (there, yonder), or specifically separated from the speech context by distance or a barrier (over). Fillers of this FE are restricted to this closed class of items.

She has a boyfriend way over in Springfield.
It is lying here on my desk.

This FE identifies the Direction traveled by the Figure. This FE is filled by one of a closed class of adverbs: up, down, out (meaning 'beyond the boundary around the viewpoint'), off (meaning 'disconnect between landmark and figure'), back (meaning 'along a line from front to back of landmark, and relatively inaccessible'), and, more rarely, away, along, and dialectally, back down (meaning 'down and behind').

An indication of how closely the position of Figure matches the prototype expected from the image schema associated with the target. This FE is normally filled by closed-class, dedicated adverbs like right, straight, directly, and due (and some combinations of these), but also occurs with rarer items like 'smack dab'.

Some general adverbs that indicate exact and non-exact match to an idea can also express this FE:

This FE identifies the Distance traveled by the Figure after the point where they were in the Profiled_region of the Ground.

The party had climbed 2000 feet past the base camp.
She tunneled deep|Dist under the earth.

A description of how much of a potential profiled region actually has (or is expected to have) a Figure in it. It is normally filled by closed-class items like 'all', 'somewhere', 'nowhere', etc.

A description of how the access path to the Ground interacts with time. This FE is filled only by the closed class of adverbials back.adv (which indicates that the position was occupied by the Figure before) and on.adv (which indicates a continued path). While this FE in its most basic use refers to cases of actual motion, it can be used with descriptions of static position, in which case it either refers to fictive, imagined motion (as in the first example below), or it backgrounds motion entirely (as in the second example).

You 'll find it straight on around behind the door.
I do n't know why my kids are back out of the crib.