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CHAPTER 2. A FRAME SEMANTIC ANALYSIS 107<br />

see off<br />

(64) a. Ihave to go to the airport tomorrow to see my brother o .<br />

b. Sorry I won't be able to see you o to France, but bon voyage, anyway.<br />

c. We went to the airport to see them o on their trip to Hawai'i.<br />

d. The entire family came to the station to see o Francesca <strong>and</strong> her sister.<br />

e. Brown: After a dinner party for which she had come down to New York, Mrs.<br />

Lewis <strong>and</strong> Casanova arrived to see them o , . . .<br />

To be present at the time of leave-taking on a journey in order to wish someone a good<br />

trip. seer <strong>and</strong> seen are both human. This sense is often followed by adjuncts giving the<br />

location of the leave-taking <strong>and</strong>/or the path of the journey.<br />

see reason<br />

(65) I hope they'll see reason before things get ugly.<br />

This means to come to what the speaker regards as a reasonable position, i.e., his or her<br />

own; variations include the (cool) light of reason, etc.<br />

see through x<br />

(66) a. She soon saw through his bluster <strong>and</strong> realized that he was actually afraid of<br />

what she might know about him.<br />

b. The very rich are targets for all sorts of con games <strong>and</strong> often become skilled<br />

at seeing through them.<br />

c. I didn't see through the con man in time.<br />

The seer comes to recognize the reality underlying some false impression which has been<br />

deliberately created. The seer is a human, the seen is almost always null instantiated,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the object of the PPthrough is some kind of deception or, metonymically, a person who<br />

deceives, as in Ex. (66-c). This use is only distantly related to see x through; there, the<br />

metaphorical motion is through some process, extended in time. Here, the gaze itself is<br />

what moves, from the seer through the deception, to the reality that lies \behind" it. The<br />

entire sense is a metaphorical mapping from the physical domain (She couldn't see through

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