Sunday 12 November 2017

Embedded Clause Complex Or Ranking Clause Complex With Ellipsis?

(1) Paratactic extending clause complex embedded as Attribute:

The kind of food we eat
depends on
which part of the world we live in or which part of our country we live in
Carrier
Process: causal: condition
Attribute
Theme
Rheme
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Complement
Mood
Residue

which part of the world we live in
or which part of our country we live in
1
+ 2 alternation


(2) Paratactic extending clause complex with ellipsed Carrier and Process:

The kind of food we eat depends on which part of the world we live in
or the kind of food we eat depends on which part of our country we live in
1
+ 2 alternation

The kind of food we eat
depends on
which part of the world we live in
Carrier
Process: causal: condition
Attribute
Theme
Rheme
Subject
Finite
Predicator
Complement
Mood
Residue

or
the kind of food we eat
depends on
which part of our country we live in

Carrier
Process: causal: condition
Attribute
Rheme

Subject
Finite
Predicator
Complement

Mood
Residue


Each analysis construes
  • the same Theme: the kind of food we eat,
  • the same Subject: the kind of food we eat,
  • the same conditional relation between the same Carrier the kind of food we eat and the same Attribute(s) which part of the world we live in (or) which part of our country we live in, and
  • the same interdependency (parataxis) and same logico-semantic relation (extension: alternation).
But the first analysis is simpler.

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