Predicator As Marked Theme In Declarative Clause

and	kill	insects	it	does
Theme: marked		Rheme
	Predicator	Complement	Subject	Finite
	Residue		Mood

Transforming Experience Into Meaning

meaning as elaborating product of an abstract material process:

transforming	experience	into meaning
Process: material: abstract	Goal	Rôle: product

Construing Experience

(1) 'construing' as mental process:

(a) 'meaning' as the enhancing means of construing

construing	experience	through meaning
Process: mental: cognitive	Phenomenon	Manner: means

(b) 'meaning' as the elaborating guise of experience

construing	experience	as meaning
Process: mental: cognitive	Phenomenon	Rôle: guise

(2) 'construing' as mentally assigned identifying process:

'meaning' as encoded by reference to experience

construing	experience	as	meaning
Process: relational: identifying	Token		Value

Encoding Value Through Theme Predication

it was the frog he lost (Martin 1992: 130)

Theme Predication: encoding ‘that which he lost’ ('what did he lose?)

it	was	the frog	[(that) he lost]
Val-	Process: identifying	Token	-ue
Identi-		Identifier	-fied
Theme			Rheme
New			Given

 cf. decoding ‘it’ ('which frog was it?)

it	was	the frog [(that) he lost]
Token	Process: identifying	Value
Identified		Identifier
Theme	Rheme
		New