'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.

Targeting Performativity

Polarity In Mood vs Residue

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 175):

Finally, we should note that the negative word not occurs in two functions: either it is simply a formal or written variant of the Finite negative element n’t, in which case it is part of the Finite; or it is a distinct modal Adjunct in Mood or Residue. In the latter case it is phonologically salient and may also be tonic…

Stylistic Metaphor

Adverb As Head Of Nominal Group Serving As Manner Circumstance

'Escalate' As Time-Phased Qualitative Process

Adverbial Group Complex As Unmarked Theme

Verbal Group As Head Of Nominal Group

'Together' As Circumstance

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 324):

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

Adverb As Head Of Nominal Group

Alternatively:

Passive Mentally Projecting Hypotactic Verbal Group Complex Serving As Existential Process

 

Goal vs Scope

 

Prepositional Phrase As Nominal Group Post-Deictic

cf.

'Mean' As Qualitative Process

See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 271).

Theme vs Subject

Decoding A Text By Reference To A Variety Expression

'Smattering' As Numerative

Attribute As Marked Theme Of Dependent Clause

Being And Nothingness

Classifying Registers By The Context Features They Realise