The bus is 10 minutes late. This means that we
won't be able to make it.
this (the fact that the bus is 10 minutes late)
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means ('entails')
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that we won't be
able to make it
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Token: reason
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Process: identifying
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Value: result
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i.e. resolving the reference reveals this as a circumstantial relational clause of cause, which means it is metaphorical. A more congruent agnate is:
Because the bus is 10 minutes late, we won't be able to make it.
