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Target Role: social_group_whole

Source Role: textile_whole

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Target Role: member_relation

Source Role: fibers

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Target Entailment: the strength of social relations

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Target Entailment: the strength/integrity of the social group as a whole depends on the strength/integrity of the relations between social members

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Target Entailment: processes that affect the strength of the social group

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Text: Cop scandals fray the social fabric.


Provenance: headline, philly.com, August 31, 1995. http://articles.philly.com/1995-08-31/news/25708713_1_fuhrman-tapes-drug-dealers-police-force. Accessed 12/3/12

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Text: Thus, we must reweave the torn fabric of rural American with thread strong enough to withstand the inevitable ravages of time.


Provenance: From "Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America", by John Ikerd. http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/PASA%20-%20Food%20is%20Common%20Thread.htm. Accessed 12/3/12

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Entailmentthe strength of social relations (the strength of the fibers, ?, ?) +, the strength/integrity of the social group as a whole depends on the strength/integrity of the relations between social members (The strength/integrity of the textile as a whole is dependent on the strength/integrity of the individual fibers., ?, ?) + and processes that affect the strength of the social group (processes that affect the strength of the fabric, ?, ?) +
ExampleEnglish (Cop scandals fray the social fabric., ?, ?, headline, philly.com, August 31, 1995. http://articles.philly.com/1995-08-31/news/25708713_1_fuhrman-tapes-drug-dealers-police-force. Accessed 12/3/12, ?, ?, ?) + and English (Thus, we must reweave the torn fabric of rural American with thread strong enough to withstand the inevitable ravages of time., ?, ?, From "Reweaving the Fabric of Rural America", by John Ikerd. http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/PASA%20-%20Food%20is%20Common%20Thread.htm. Accessed 12/3/12, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Textile +
Has target frameFrame:Social group +
Mappingsocial_group_whole (textile_whole, ?) + and member_relation (fibers, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasSOCIAL GROUP IS A TEXTILE (?) +
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