He regretted (the
fact) that he had lied.
He
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regretted
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(the fact) [[that he had lied]]
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Senser
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Process: mental: emotive
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Phenomenon: metaphenomenon
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Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 471):
A fact clause serving as Head in a nominal group without a fact noun can be related to the first class of fact noun — that of 'cases', since such a fact clause is always agnate with an expanded nominal group with fact as Head. Whether the nominal group has a fact noun as Head or not, the fact clause is embedded. Because there is no projecting process involved, to which it could be paratactically or hypotactically related, a fact can appear only in embedded form: either as Qualifier to a 'fact' noun, or as a nominalisation on its own.
the
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fact
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[[that he had lied]]
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Deictic
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Thing
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Qualifier
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vs
[[that he had lied]]
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Qualifier/Head
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