Metaphor:NATIONAL POLITICAL FUNCTIONALITY IS PHYSICAL INTEGRITY

Name Gloss	NATIONAL POLITICAL FUNCTIONALITY IS PHYSICAL INTEGRITY
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Experiential Basis

Source Frame	Condition of physical object Roles:physical_object, state_of_object
Target Frame	Nation Roles:nation_whole, nation_geographic_area, nation_member_regions, nation_citizens, nation_leaders, national_government, state_of_nation, nation_infrastructure, basis_of_continued_existence

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Example Text:	But Scott Brown’s win in the Massachusetts Senate race does raise a bigger question: is the system broken? I fear the answer is yes.
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Provenance:	true/slant (blog)
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n1 -> n2 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n3 [label="Political region" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Political_region" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n3 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; }

digraph meta4graph { rankdir="BT" }

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n1 -> n2 [label = "is subcase of" fontsize="8.0" color="magenta" ]; n3 [label="Stability" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Stability" fontsize="10.0" ];

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

n2 -> n4 [label = "incorporates as a role" fontsize="8.0" ]; n5 [label="Scale" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Scale" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n5 [label = "makes use of" fontsize="8.0" color="green" ]; n6 [label="Physical attributes" URL="/pub/en/index.php/Frame:Physical_attributes" fontsize="10.0" ];

n2 -> n6 [label = "?" fontsize="8.0" constraint=false color="dimgray" ]; }