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Target Role: nation_whole

Source Role: building_whole

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Target Role: nation_citizens

Source Role: building_inhabitants

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Target Role: state_of_nation

Source Role: building_integrity

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Target Role: nation_infrastructure

Source Role: building_framework

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Target Role: basis_of_continued_existence

Source Role: building_foundation

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Current Metaphor: NATION IS A BUILDING

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Target Entailment: Creating a nation.

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Target Entailment: Destroying a nation.

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Target Entailment: Fixing the problems of a nation.

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Text: “This is a time to build a nation, brick by brick, pillar by pillar, not a time to tear down our brothers and sisters or pillage their property,”


Provenance: http://www.stluciamirroronline.org/?p=2282

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Text: They represent the brick and mortar of our nation's developing infrastructure.


Provenance: http://kyrstensinema.com/press-releases/sinema-earns-endorsement-of-arizona-building-trades-council/

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Text: "Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."


Provenance: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adriancron396239.html

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EntailmentCreating a nation. (Building a building., ?, ?) +, Destroying a nation. (Demolishing a building., ?, ?) + and Fixing the problems of a nation. (Fixing the structural problems of a building., ?, ?) +
ExampleEnglish (“This is a time to build a nation, brick by brick, pillar by pillar, not a time to tear down our brothers and sisters or pillage their property,”, ?, ?, http://www.stluciamirroronline.org/?p=2282, ?, ?, ?) +, English (They represent the brick and mortar of our nation's developing infrastructure., ?, ?, http://kyrstensinema.com/press-releases/sinema-earns-endorsement-of-arizona-building-trades-council/, ?, ?, ?) + and English ("Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.", ?, ?, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/adriancron396239.html, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Building +
Has target frameFrame:Nation +
Mappingnation_whole (building_whole, ?) +, nation_citizens (building_inhabitants, ?) +, state_of_nation (building_integrity, ?) +, nation_infrastructure (building_framework, ?) + and basis_of_continued_existence (building_foundation, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasNATION IS A BUILDING (?) +
Metaphor.Investigated forEnglish +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Building +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Nation +
Metaphor.TypeComposed/complex +
Related metaphoris a source subcase of (NATION IS A COMPLEX STRUCTURE, ?) +
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