Saturday 16 July 2016

Ranged Clauses: Behavioural vs Material

he
gave
a laugh/grin/shrug/sneeze
Behaver
Process: behavioural
Behaviour


he
gave
it
a squeeze/wash
Actor
Process: material
Goal*
Scope: process

* not Recipient — not 'he gave a wash to it'

Saturday 2 July 2016

'Provide' Serving As An Identifying Process Of Benefactive Possession


then
they (the results)
will provide
us
with
important information [regarding the methods [[[that should be used || for questioning eyewitnesses in real-world accident and/or crime scene contexts]]] ]

Identified/Token
Process: relational: possession: benefaction
Beneficiary

Identifier/Value


See Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 246; 2014: 297).

Decoding 'A System Call' And Encoding 'Examples Of This'

decoding ‘a system call’

a system call 
is
a request [[[made by a process to the operating system || in order to perform tasks [[only the operating system can complete]] ]]]
Identified/Token
Process: relational
Identifier/Value


encoding ‘examples of this’

[[[retrieving a file from a disk, || or retrieving/displaying inputs/outputs]]]
are
examples [of this]
Identifier/Token
Process: relational
Identified/Value