Friday 31 May 2013

Circumstantial Adjunct


their extensive and well-preserved remains
stand 
in spectacular natural surroundings
Carrier
Process
Attribute: circumstantial
Subject
Finite/Predicator
Adjunct


Note that a circumstantial Attribute is Adjunct, not Complement.  Compare:


it
has
a perpendicular nave, 12th-century Gothic choir, stunning stained glass windows and a Romanesque crypt
Carrier
Process
Attribute: possessed
Subject
Finite/Predicator
Complement

Wednesday 22 May 2013

Non-Finite Dependent Clause With No Verb

With free entry to over 30 of the city’s top attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free guidebook and lots of exclusive offers the Edinburgh Pass is the best way to explore the Scottish capital.

As Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 490) point out:
There is one type of non-finite dependent clause which is often not recognised because it has no verb in it; for example, with no-one in charge, with everyone so short of money.  These are in fact ‘attributive relational’ clauses, with zero alternation of the non-finite verb being (less commonly they may be identifying, eg with that the only solution).  The verb be will always be present in the agnate finite clause (eg since no-one is in charge); and in the non-finite it is always possible to insert being, with very little difference in meaning.
So, on this basis, the analysis would be

With
free entry to over 30 of the city’s top attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free guidebook and lots of exclusive offers
the Edinburgh Pass
is
the best way to explore the Scottish capital
x β
α

Attribute
Token
Process
Value

Cf the agnate enhancing (causal: reason) non-finite clause:

Providing
free entry to over 30 of the city’s top attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free guidebook and lots of exclusive offers
Process
Attribute

Cf the agnate enhancing (causal: reason) finite clause:

Because
it
provides
free entry to over 30 of the city’s top attractions, free return airport and city centre bus transport, a free guidebook and lots of exclusive offers

Carrier
Process
Attribute