active:
I
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got
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us
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into this
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I
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'm gonna get
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us
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out
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1
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x 2
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Actor
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Process: material
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Goal
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Location: motion towards
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Actor
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Process: material
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Goal
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Location
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The unmarked present tense is the present in present, not the simple present, which suggests material, not relational.
The 'motion towards' circumstance is consistent with action, rather than inertia.
I
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caused
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us
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to be
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in this mess
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Attributor
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Process:
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Carrier
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attributive
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circumstantial
Attribute
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I
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'm gonna cause
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us
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to be
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out of it
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Attributor
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Process:
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Carrier
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attributive
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circumstantial
Attribute
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See Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 159-65) on the complementarity of doing and being.
