'Sing Out' As Attributive Process?

Complement As Theme, Subject As Rheme

Music As Inducer Of Mental Processes

Decoding Music By Reference To Mental Processes

Hypotactic Elaborating Nominal Group Complexes

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.

Language, Material Environment And Cultural Context

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.

Tagged Imperative Or Metaphorical Interrogative?

The first analysis treats this instance as a tagged imperative clause, whereas the second treats it as an interpersonal metaphor of mood: a command realised as polar interrogative clause. Cf

This raises the question as to whether the tagging of the imperative facilitated the genesis of the metaphorical variant.

'Find' As Attributive Process

Matter Qualifier vs Cause Qualifier

'Strike' As Attributive Process

Cf 

Howard Carter was made silent by what he had found

Howard Carter was silenced by what he had found

Decoding People And Books By Reference To Consciousness

people	are	individuations of collective consciousness
Identified Token	Process: relational	Identifier Value

books	are	instances of individuations of collective consciousness
Identified Token	Process: relational	Identifier Value

Fighting Racism With Nominal Groups

Classifier = racism

coloured	people
Classifier	Thing

Qualifier = anti-racism

people	of colour
Thing	Qualifier

But note that the anti-racist agnate presents colour as the unmarked focus of information. See Halliday (1985: 170).

Organism Competition

all organisms	compete	for resources
Behaver	Process: behavioural	Cause: purpose

This behavioural clause ascribes consciousness to all types of organisms — including bacteria, amœbæ, plants and sponges — and construes all organisms as consciously competing with each other. Moreover, it construes the result of organism behaviour — access to resources — as the conscious purpose of the behaviour of all types of organisms, without knowledge of their conscious states.

Imperative Relational Clauses

Be	honest
Theme: unmarked	Rheme
Process: attributive	Attribute
Predicator	Complement
Residue

Be	the most honest
Theme: unmarked	Rheme
Process: identifying	Value
Predicator	Complement
Residue

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'

Gene Competition

genes	compete	for selection
Behaver	Process: behavioural	Cause: purpose

Such a construal ascribes both consciousness (Behaver) and intention (Purpose) to functional segments of DNA molecules.