Theme Will Tear Us Apart Again

But in Halliday ± Matthiessen (1985, 1994, 2004, 2014), in cases of predicated Theme, the embedded clause is also analysed for Theme:

Targeting Authority On One's Own Behalf

Role As Identifier Value

Clause-Final Subject

'Be' As Material Process

Attribute As Unmarked Theme

Subject As Marked Theme Of Imperative Clause

Finite/Predicator As Theme Of Declarative Clause

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

Adverbial Group Complex As Unmarked Theme

'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;

Adverb As Head Of Nominal Group

Alternatively:

Theme vs Subject

Attribute As Marked Theme Of Dependent Clause

In The Absence Of Isochronicity Or Synchrony

This question was asked by Jim Martin on the asflanet discussion list. Strangely, he received no replies. Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 272): 

So the more the extent of grammatical metaphor in a text, the more that text is loaded against the learner, and against anyone who is an outsider to the register in question. It becomes elitist discourse, in which the function of constructing knowledge goes together with the function of restricting access to that knowledge, making it impenetrable to all except those who have the means of admission to the inside, or the select group of those who are already there. It is this other potential that grammatical metaphor has, for making meaning that is obscure, arcane and exclusive, that makes it ideal as a mode of discourse for establishing and maintaining status, prestige and hierarchy …

Subject As Unmarked Theme And Unmarked New

// 13  ៱ she had a / delicate / taste had / Irma //

Existent As Marked Theme

'Sing Out' As Attributive Process?

Complement As Theme, Subject As Rheme

Dissociation Of Subject And Theme

'Came' As Identifying Process

The lexical choice of came stylistically adds the features of 'motion' and 'direction' to the relational Process.