Metaphor:GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE

Name Gloss	GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE
Name Transcription
Aliases
Description
Metaphor Level	General
Metaphor Type	Composed/complex
Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Machine Roles:machine_entity, purpose, functional_status, operator_of_machine, operating_x-schema, parts, power_source
Target Frame	Government institution Roles:goverment_whole, responsibilities, functions, positions, position_duties, position_holders, authority_structure, sub-groups, position_relations, functional_status, rules, authority_base

Mappings:

government_whole	<=	machine_entity

functional_status	<=	functional_status

responsibilites	<=	purpose

functions	<=	operating_x-schema

Related Metaphors:

Current Metaphor	GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE
Relation Type	is a target subcase of
Related Metaphor	INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE
Description

Current Metaphor	GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A MACHINE
Relation Type	is a source subcase of
Related Metaphor	GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION IS A PHYSICAL STRUCTURE
Description

Entailments:

Target Entailment	the ability of the government to fulfill its responsibilites depends on its functional status
Source Inference	the ability of the machine to function depends on the state of its physical structure (physical status), e.g rusty, broken, well-oiled
Type of Inferential Structure
Entailed Metaphor(s)

Examples:

Example Text:	If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out. If the injustice has a spring, or a pulley, or a rope, or a crank, exclusively for itself, then perhaps you may consider whether the remedy will not be worse than the evil; but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	Thoreau, On the duty of civil disobedience
Annotation:
Comments:

Example Text:	They had elected him (Jackson) to conduct the Government and to keep and remove its moneys, and he meant to do so on the principle that it was a simple machine.
Transcription:
English Translation:
Provenance:	query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res...
Annotation:
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Graph of related metaphors:

• Target frame
• Metaphors
• Source frame

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n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Government" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Government" fontsize="10.0" ];

n4 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n5 [label="Government institution US" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Government_institution_US" fontsize="10.0" ];

n5 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Legislative branch" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Legislative_branch" fontsize="10.0" ];

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n2 -> n8 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ];

n2 -> n4 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }

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n2 -> n4 [label = "is a source subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

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n3 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n4 [label="Vehicle" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Vehicle" fontsize="10.0" ];

n4 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n5 [label="Physical structure" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_structure" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n6 [label="Control" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Control" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n6 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; }