Non-Behavioural Laughing

'Show' As Material Process Embedded In Encoding Relational Clause

The verb show also serves as a relational or verbal Process.

Blowin' In The Wind

The "Agency" Of Genes

'Be' As Material Process

Material Clause Without Medium

Subject As Marked Theme Of Imperative Clause

Stylistic Metaphor

'Together' As Circumstance

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 324):

Accompaniment is a form of joint participation in the process and represents the meanings ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’ as circumstantials;

Goal vs Scope

 

'Sneak' As Happening, Doing, Behaving And Targeted Saying

The lexical choice of 'sneak' adds a Quality feature to the Process.

Identifying Clause With Depictive Attribute?

Being Macbeth drunk:

Doing Macbeth drunk:

Material Clause With 2 Range Participants

Thing Realised By Paratactically Elaborated Word Complex

'Exist' As Material Process?

Dissociation Of Subject And Theme

Locational 'There' Or Existential 'There'?

Cf On the wide flats beside the noisy river there were marshalled …

If in many companies is how they were marshalled, then Manner;

If in many companies is where they were marshalled, then Location.

Operative Material Clause With No Medium

the cancer patients	were smoking	outside the emergency room
Agent Actor	Process: material	Location

i.e. 'smoking cigarettes' (causing cigarettes to emit smoke)

cf

the cancer patients	were smoking	outside the emergency room
Medium Actor	Process: material	Location

i.e. 'on fire and emitting smoke'

Surprise Gift

Agent Phenomenon	Process: mental	Medium Senser
it	surprised	me
it	gave	me	a surprise
Agent Actor	Process: material	Beneficiary Recipient	Medium Goal

Note that if a surprise were interpreted as Scope: process, the Actor must then be incongruously interpreted as the Medium of the Process gave.

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