Non-Behavioural Laughing

Clause-Final Subject

The "Agency" Of Genes

Attribute As Unmarked Theme

An Enclosed Structurally Unrelated Clause

Mr Minter, 'Call me Ted', was  a large, untidy, perpetually smiling man with the look of an astute rabbit.

— John Mortimer Rumpole And The Asylum Seekers

One way to analyse the enclosed clause as structurally related is to take the view from below. Because it is realised as its own tone group (TONALITY) and realised by tone concord with what precedes (TONE), the enclosed clause is realised as if it were in non-defining elaborating relationship with the surrounding clause. Such an interpretation, though, requires treating the clause that projected it as ellipsed.

Finite/Predicator As Theme Of Declarative Clause

 For Finite/Predicator as Theme, see Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 98n-9n).

'Portray' As Relational Process

In Deploying Functional Grammar (Martin, Matthiessen & Painter 2010: 124), portray is interpreted as a behavioural process, despite it occurring in effective clauses, and despite its Range not being a behaviour.

Stylistic Metaphor

'Escalate' As Time-Phased Qualitative Process

'Mean' As Qualitative Process

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 271).

Attribute As Marked Theme Of Dependent Clause

Extending Paratactic Adverbial Group Complex As Attribute

Attributive Clause With Depictive Attribute?

Phonological Rule As Attributive Clause

Attributes Of Higher-Order Consciousness

'Sing Out' As Attributive Process?

'Find' As Attributive Process

'Strike' As Attributive Process

Cf 

Howard Carter was made silent by what he had found

Howard Carter was silenced by what he had found

Imperative Relational Clauses

Be	honest
Theme: unmarked	Rheme
Process: attributive	Attribute
Predicator	Complement
Residue

Be	the most honest
Theme: unmarked	Rheme
Process: identifying	Value
Predicator	Complement
Residue

Circumstantial Attributive Clause With Assignment?

the living area	extends	from the lounge room to the billiard room
Carrier	Process: circumstantial	circumstantial Attribute

the living area	has been extended	from the lounge room to the billiard room
Carrier	Process: circumstantial	circumstantial Attribute

the living area	has been extended	from the lounge room to the billiard room	by the new owners
Carrier	Process: circumstantial	circumstantial Attribute	Attributor

the new owners	have extended	the living area	from the lounge room to the billiard room
Attributor	Process: circumstantial	Carrier	circumstantial Attribute

However, ASSIGNMENT is a system that is restricted to intensive relations. Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 288):

Both ‘identifying’ and ‘attributive’ clauses of the ‘intensive’ kind have the option of ASSIGNMENT: they may be configured with a third participant representing the entity assigning the relationship of identity of attribution – for example, they in they made Mary the leader and they made Mary happy. In the case of ‘identifying’ clauses, this is the Assigner; in the case of ‘attributing’ clauses, this is the Attributor. In a ‘receptive’ clause, this participant may be left implicit.

If this is true, then it suggests a different analysis of the 'assigned' clauses above.  Given what would be the unmarked present tense, these clauses are material:

• the new owners are extending the living area from the lounge room to the billiard room, not
• the new owners extend the living area from the lounge room to the billiard room.

On this basis, the analyses are reinterpreted as follows:

the living area	extends	from the lounge room to the billiard room
Carrier	Process: relational	circumstantial Attribute

the living area	has been extended	from the lounge room to the billiard room
Goal	Process: material	Extent

the living area	has been extended	from the lounge room to the billiard room	by the new owners
Goal	Process: material	Extent	Actor

the new owners	have extended	the living area	from the lounge room to the billiard room
Actor	Process: material	Goal	Extent