Clause Complex Embedded As Qualifier Of Epithet

Cf I'm not very surprised…

Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 275):

Submodifiers like so, very, too go with nominal groups but not with verbal groups: we can say I was very afraid of it but not I very feared it; you’re not too keen on it but not you don’t too want it.

Thematic Equative In Complex With Nested Dependent Clause

This identity encodes the Value what we can notice by reference to the Token a clear evolutionary tendency towards centralisation.

Internal Bracketing or Nesting

The desk [[which you bought at the shop [near the bakery [[which sells those cakes [[your father likes]] ]] ] ]].

i.e.

[[which you bought at the shop near the bakery which sells those cakes your father likes]]

inside of which is nested:

[near the bakery which sells those cakes your father likes]

inside of which is nested:

[[which sells those cakes your father likes]]

inside of which is nested:

[[your father likes]]