Finite/Predicator As Theme Of Declarative Clause

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

Extending Paratactic Adverbial Group Complex As Attribute

Self-Consciousness Without Higher-Order Consciousness

Primary Consciousness Without Self-Consciousness

As Naked And Blatant As A Pig In A Cathedral

Uncovering Congruent Agency By Undoing Ellipsis And Unpacking Metaphor

A.

 (1) Reinstating the elided Agent:

(2) Unpacking the metaphorical Agent:

B.

Here, despite the fact that adults are killing children in a refugee camp, no agency whatsoever is construed.

Halliday (2003 [1993]: 215):

… it is precisely in the "reporting" of pronouncements and speeches on the one hand, and of massacres, terrorist acts and nuclear disasters on the other, that linguistic analysis most clearly reveals the opposing ideologies that are being promoted in different organs. Construing events as news is a highly political act.

Emotion-Imbued Cognitive Projection

I am unable to look at my customer in the dock	without feeling	there but for the Grace of God goes Horace Rumpole
α	+ β
	1	' 2

I	am unable to look	at my customer in the dock
Behaver	Process: behavioural	Location: orientation

without	feeling
	Process: mental: cognition

there	but for the Grace of God	goes		Horace Rumpole
Theme: marked	Rheme
Location	Contingency: default	Process: material		Actor
Attribute: circumstantial		Process: relational		Carrier
Adjunct	Adjunct	Predicator	Finite	Subject
Residue			Mood

The above analysis assumes the Mood Tag would be doesn't he (rather than doesn't there).
This analysis is supported by the phonological salience of there.