Mental Vs Attributive Relational

it	matters	to me
Carrier	Process/Attribute	Angle: viewpoint

I	care	about it
Senser	Process: mental	Matter

it	concerns (‘worries’)	me
Phenomenon	Process: mental	Senser

it	concerns (‘is about’)	me
Carrier	Process: relational: circumstantial	Attribute

Mental Assignment Vs Mental Projection [1]

He	thinks	it	funny
Attributor	Process: relational	Carrier	Attribute

He	thinks		it	is	funny
Senser	Process: mental		Carrier	Process: relational	Attribute

Phased Attribution

The pearls	would break back into	salt
Carrier	Process: intensive	Attribute

(See Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 219.)

But note that the lexical item break invites a material (transformative: destructive) interpretation.

Imperative Attributive Clause With Assignment And Elaborating Verbal Group Complex

stop	making	stupid people	famous
Process		Carrier	Attribute
a = b [time phase: inceptive]

Clause Complex With Ellipsed Subject

Canterbury Cathedral	was	founded	in AD597	and	Ø	is	the Mother Church of the Anglican Communion
1				+2
Theme	Rheme				Rheme
Goal	Process		Location		Token	Process	Value
Subject	Finite	Predicator	Adjunct		Subject	Finite	Complement

Reasoning:  Ellipsis marks elements as textually non-prominent, whereas Theme marks elements as textually prominent.  Therefore, ellipsed elements do not function as Theme.

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 563):

Ellipsis marks the textual status of continuous information within a certain grammatical structure.  At the same time, the non-ellipsed elements of that structure are given the status of being contrastive in the environment of continuous information.  Ellipsis thus assigns differential prominence to the elements of a structure: if they are non-prominent (continuous), they are ellipsed; if they are prominent (contrastive), they are present.  The absence of elements through ellipsis is an iconic realisation of lack of prominence.

Existential Clause With Marked Theme

Nowhere else	was	there	a joint like that
Location	Process		Existent
Adjunct	Finite	Subject	Complement
Theme	Rheme

Hypotactic Elaborating Clause Complex With Enclosed Clause

||| Preliminary GDP figures for the fourth quarter of 2006 and final figures for 2006 << released by the Bank of Korea on the 25th >> show that real GDP in 2006 totaled 757.94 trillion won || a 5% increase on the 2005 figure of 721.5 trillion won |||

a

Preliminary GDP figures [for the fourth quarter of 2006] and final figures [for 2006]	show	[[that real GDP in 2006 totaled 757.94 trillion won]]
Token/Identifier	Process: identifying	Value/Identified

=b

released	by the Bank of Korea	on the 25th
Process: material	Actor	Location

=c

a 5% increase [on the 2005 figure [of 721.5 trillion [[won]] ] ]

Attribute

Attributive Clause With Mental Assignment And Marked Theme

This	we	considered	a course [[to which it was not desirable [[that the leave [[that had been granted]] should be taken as extending]] ]]
Carrier	Attributor	Process: relational: intensive	Attribute
Medium	Agent	Process	Range
Complememt	Subject	Finite/Predicator	Complement
Theme: marked	Rheme

Attribute As Marked Theme

tempting	as	it	may be
Attribute		Carrier	Process: attributive
Theme	Rheme

Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 419)

Verbal Vs Mental Projection Of Reports

she	told	him	to leave
a			“ b
Sayer	Process: verbal	Receiver	Process: material

she	wanted	him	to leave
a		‘ b
Senser	Process: mental	Actor	Process: material

See Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 130) for the grammatical argumentation.