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Target Role: governor

Source Role: person

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Target Role: governing_actions

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Current Metaphor: GOVERNMENT IS A PERSON

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Text: The US government loves you. In fact, it loves you so much that it’s willing shackle your legs together. Just to protect you – tough love, baby. Now, it may hurt a bit but just try to breathe through the pain. Remember – it hurts the government more than it hurts you.


Provenance: http://www.good.is/posts/the-us-government-loves-you-except-you-hussie

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Comments: Note that this is also an example of GOVERNMENT IS PARENT. ("This hurts me more than it hurts you" is a reference to the frame of punishing a child.)


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ExampleEnglish (The US government loves you. In fact, it loves you so much that it’s willing shackle your legs together. Just to protect you – tough love, baby. Now, it may hurt a bit but just try to breathe through the pain. Remember – it hurts the government more than it hurts you., ?, ?, http://www.good.is/posts/the-us-government-loves-you-except-you-hussie, ?, Note that this is also an example of GOVERNMENT IS PARENT. ("This hurts me more than it hurts you" is a reference to the frame of punishing a child.), ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Person +
Has target frameFrame:Government +
Mappinggovernor (person, ?) +, governing_actions (actions, ?) + and governor_objectives (objectives, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasGOVERNMENT IS A PERSON (?) +
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Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Government +
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Related metaphoris a source subcase of (GOVERNMENT IS AN ORGANISM, ?) +
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