بَنَى الْأَمِيرُ الْمَدِينَةَ
The prince built the city.
Workers and builders commonly perform the physical construction. The prince may be credited with building through commissioning, resources, management, or command. The predication is then associated through causation.
It does not follow that every utterance of this sentence is automatically figurative: if the prince literally performed the relevant act, or the context defines “building” more broadly, the analysis changes. The attribution must be interpreted within its circumstances.