Monday, 16 May 2016

Agent Of An Untargeted Verbal Process: Prompter


he
made
her
confess
Prompter
Process:
Sayer
verbal

Jim
let
Mary
announce
the marriage
Prompter
Process:
Sayer
verbal
Verbiage

active engagement with texts
enables
students
to articulate
ideas
Prompter
Process:
Sayer
verbal
Verbiage


He
made
me
tell
him
what
happened
a
“ b
Prompter
Process:
Sayer
verbal
Receiver
Actor
Process: material

He
made
me
tell
him
how
I
did
it
a
“ b
Prompter
Process:
Sayer
verbal
Receiver
Manner
Actor
Process: material
Goal


The term 'Prompter' has been used by Systemicists at Macquarie University for about 20 years or so.

Thursday, 14 April 2016

Assigned Attributive (± Qualitative) Processes


Second
having ensured
[[that we do as little harm as possible]]

Process: relational
Attribute
Carrier

we
must make
sure
[[that the interdisciplinary linkages [[mentioned earlier]] do not fall between organisational stools]]
Attributor
Process: relational
Attribute
Carrier


See Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 269).

Monday, 21 March 2016

Ordinal Frequency

she
did
it
by herself 
for the first time
Actor
Process: material
Goal
Accompaniment
Extent: frequency


How many times has she done it unaccompanied?