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'Enjoy Oneself' As Behavioural Process

First Analysis:

This is not a mental process, because

(i) himself is not the Phenomenon that he is enjoying;

(ii) the unmarked present tense is 'present in present', like behavioural and material clauses.

The clause is agnate with he is enjoying [[what he is doing]],

so himself serves the same function as the Behaviour what he is doing.

Here 'enjoy' adds an emotional feature to a behavioural Process.

Final Analysis:

In  the case of this reflexive verb, the Range of the Process is better analysed as included in the Process itself (like behaving himself):

Of the two-participant process types, behavioural is the only that excludes the possibility of a reflexive pronoun, since the second participant is limited to a behaviour. For example,

• material: he cut himself
• mental: he saw himself
• verbal: he flattered himself 
• relational: he wasn't himself 

So wordings like 'enjoy oneself' and 'behave oneself' must function as a behavioural Process.

Thingless Nominal Group Embedded As Qualifier

Cf. one too few legs, one too many drinks, one drink too many.

 Woke Alert: May cause offence to unidexters.

Marked Textual Structure Of A Nominal Group

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 387, 397):

Textual meaning is embodied throughout the entire structure, since it determines the order in which the elements are arranged, as well as patterns of information structure just as in the clause (note, for example, that the unmarked focus of information in a nominal group is on the word that comes last, not the word that functions as Thing. This means that there is a certain potential for assigning experientially similar meanings different textual statuses within the structure of the nominal group. …

Initial position is thematic; and the natural theme of a process or participant is its relation to the here-and-now. Final position is informative; and the newsworthy component of a process or participant is some aspect of its lexical content. So the structure of groups recapitulates, in the fixed ordering of their elements, the meaning that is incorporated as choice in the message structure of the clause.

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:

Decoding And Encoding The Self

Targeting Authority On One's Own Behalf

Non-Behavioural Laughing

Direction Of Coding And Agency

A decoding identifying clause can be middle or effective:

but an encoding identifying clause is always effective:

Decoding vs Encoding Interrogatives

'Show' As Material Process Embedded In Encoding Relational Clause

The verb show also serves as a relational or verbal Process.

Blowin' In The Wind

Role As Identifier Value

Clause-Final Subject

Adverbial Group Of Cause Serving As Verbiage And Phenomenon Participants

The "Agency" Of Genes

'Used To'

 The Finite used to conflates the meaning of a temporal Adjunct with past tense:

'As Usual' vs 'Usually'

as usual serves as a comment Adjunct of the type 'predictable'.

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 191).

The Existence Of Words

'Be' As Material Process

'Lead' As Circumstantial Identifying Process

Attribute As Unmarked Theme

Identifying Clause Without Medium (Identified Token)

Descartes' Reification Of Sensing

An Enclosed Structurally Unrelated Clause

Mr Minter, 'Call me Ted', was  a large, untidy, perpetually smiling man with the look of an astute rabbit.

— John Mortimer Rumpole And The Asylum Seekers

One way to analyse the enclosed clause as structurally related is to take the view from below. Because it is realised as its own tone group (TONALITY) and realised by tone concord with what precedes (TONE), the enclosed clause is realised as if it were in non-defining elaborating relationship with the surrounding clause. Such an interpretation, though, requires treating the clause that projected it as ellipsed.

Intense Emotion Without Graduated Affect

This is an experiential construal of intense emotion but not an interpersonal enactment of graduated affect. This is because AFFECT is the system of enacting a positive or negative appraisal by reference to emotion, and no such appraisal is enacted here. (Any enactment of a judgement by the author of the clause is a separate matter.) 

Material Clause Without Medium

Nominal Group As Qualifier

Embedded Nominal Group As Deictic vs Qualifier

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).

Chemical Symbolism As Metaphorical

It is the grammatical metaphor afforded by chemical symbolism that enables the systematic expansion of the semantics of the field of chemistry, most explicitly in terms of quantified composition. Cf. Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 288-9):

It is the fact that metaphor multiplies meanings within the semantic system that opens up the possibility of metaphorical chains, with one congruent starting-point and another highly metaphorical end-point (A"' stands for A" stands for A' stands for A; e.g. 'engine failure* stands for 'the failing of an engine' stands for 'an engine failed'). The semantic system is being expanded along the dimension of the metaphorical token-value relation; but the expansion is still within the semantic system itself.

NaCl stands for sodium chloride stands for salt. (Thing+Thing stands for Classifier^Thing stands for Thing.)

Chemical Symbolism vs Chemical Names

Chemical Equations

Decoding H₂O

The Logical Structure Of The Verbal Group

Halliday (1994: 198):

'For' As Minor Process Of Accompaniment

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 324):

Accompaniment is a form of joint participation in the process and represents the meanings ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘not’ as circumstantials;

Cognitive Mental Process With Macrophenomenon

cf Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 256);

'Portray' As Relational Process

In Deploying Functional Grammar (Martin, Matthiessen & Painter 2010: 124), portray is interpreted as a behavioural process, despite it occurring in effective clauses, and despite its Range not being a behaviour.