Nexus Interruptus or Premature Thematisation?

a	<< x b >>
Theme		Rheme
Contemporary empiricists	<< had they lived in the sixteenth century >>	would have been	the first [[ to scoff out of court the new philosophy of the universe ]]
Token		Process: relational	Value

had	they	lived	in the sixteenth century
Finite	Subject	Predicator	Adjunct
Mood		Residue

Process:	Existent	existential	Location
had	they	lived	in the sixteenth century
Process:	Carrier	relational	Attribute: circumstantial

Predicator As (Marked) Theme Of Declarative Clause

and	show	them	he	did	by methods and gadgets the like of which the world had never seen
Theme		Rheme
	Predicator	Complement	Subject	Finite	Adjunct
	Resi-		Mood		-due

Decoding The Shape Of Cleopatra’s Nose

the shape of Cleopatra’s nose	influences	not only wars, but ideologies
Identified / Token	Process: relational: circumstantial	Identifier / Value