Sunday, 23 September 2018

Doing vs Caused Being


active:

I
got
us
into this
I
'm gonna get
us
out
1
x 2
Actor
Process: material
Goal
Location: motion towards
Actor
Process: material
Goal
Location

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.

Cf. inert:

I
caused
us
to be
in this mess
Attributor
Process:
Carrier
attributive
circumstantial Attribute


I
'm gonna cause
us
to be
out of it
Attributor
Process:
Carrier
attributive
circumstantial Attribute

See Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 159-65) on the complementarity of doing and being.

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