Thursday 1 May 2014

Embedded Dependent Circumstantial Attributive Clause

first we respect the feeling [[that any unemployed person feels || when his looking for a job lasts for a while]]


his looking for a job
lasts
for a while
Carrier
Process: attributive
Attribute/Extent

we
respect
the feeling [[that any unemployed person feels || when his looking for a job lasts for a while]]
Senser
Process: mental
Phenomenon

The lasts clause temporally expands the feels clause, not the respect clause, and so is embedded within the Qualifier of the nominal group realising the Phenomenon.

the
feeling
[[that any unemployed person feels || when his looking for a job lasts for a while]]
Deictic
Thing
Qualifier

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