Targeting Authority On One's Own Behalf

Adverbial Group Of Cause Serving As Verbiage And Phenomenon Participants

Finite/Predicator As Theme Of Declarative Clause

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

Targeting Performativity

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

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

"The Reaction Object Construction (ROC)"

 

The lexical choice of verb adds a behavioural manner to the verbal Process.

Verbal Clause With Depictive Attribute

Verbal vs Mental Texts

Academic Colleagues As Targets Of Both Deception And False Accusation

the plagiarist	deceived	his academic community	by	falsely	accusing	his colleagues	of dishonesty
α			x β manner
Sayer	Process: verbal	Target		Manner	Process: verbal	Target	Matter

'Started Giving' As Verbal Process

the paranoid con man	started giving	orders	to the unpaid volunteers
Sayer	Process: verbal	Verbiage	Receiver

Target Of Deception

she	successfully	deceived	the witless	about what she actually can do
Sayer	Manner	Process: verbal	Target	Matter