An Inclination To Possess Realised Metaphorically As An Inability To Exist

I	cannot live (‘exist’)	without them
Existent	Process: existential	Contingency: default
		Accompaniment *

metaphorical for:

I	need (‘must have’)	them
Carrier: possessor	Process: possession	Attribute: possessed

* Viewed from above, the meaning is Contingency: default ('in the absence of').  As Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 273) point out:

A circumstance of Accompaniment may have an additional sense of cause or contingency…

Being Located

We	live	in the same city
Carrier	Process: relational	Attribute: circumstantial

Note that this is relational, not material:

• Viewed from above, it means 'we are in the same city' (being-&-having), not 'we do in the same city' (doing-&-happening).
• Viewed from roundabout, the unmarked present tense is the simple present, not the present-in-present; if a material Process, the simple present would be the marked option, additionally realising the meaning 'habitual', as in we work in the same city (cf. the unmarked we're working in the same city).

Encoding Poetry

poetry	is	what gets lost in translation
Value/Identified	Process: relational	Token/Identifier

Semiotic Existence

there	are	some great new ideas	in his latest book
	Process: existential	Existent	Location

The Verb 'Read' Serving As Material Process

unmarked present tense: present in present

the queen	is reading	her new book
Actor	Process: material	Scope

simple present: ‘habitual’

the queen	reads	novels
Actor	Process: material	Scope

See also:

The Verb 'Read' Serving As Mental Process

The Verb 'Read' Serving As Verbal Process

The Verb 'Read' Serving As Relational Process