Image Schemas and Force - Dynamics in FrameNet ∗

This report presents the early results of the Frame+Schema project, a project to represent image and force-dynamic schemas in FrameNet. These structures are eventually intended to be used in leveraging the wealth of frame semantic knowledge available in the FrameNet database for situation-specific reasoning. We detail our image and forcedynamic schemas in the Embodied Construction Grammar formalism and give correspondence rules to represent these schemas in FrameNet. We also analyze much of the current force-dynamic structure in the FrameNet database and suggest changes to make it more compatible with image and force-dynamic schema-based inference. We note many of the issues raised by our representation as well as the unsolved problems and also make proposals for future work in the Frame+Schema project. ∗This would be far worse if not for the many suggestions of the others at the Frame+Schema meetings: Jerry Feldman, Srini Narayanan, Michael Ellsworth, Collin Baker, and Josef Ruppenhofer. Johno Bryant was also more than helpful and generous with his time. †[email protected] ‡[email protected]