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(3) TRANSITIVITY - Coggle Diagram
(3) TRANSITIVITY
CIRCUMSTANCES
Place/ Spatial
where? how far?
He goes
to church
every Sunday
Manner
Quality
how?
He loved her
madly, deeply, truly!
Comparison
What like?
He was jumping around
like a monkey on a roof
Means
by what means (what with?)
He goes
by taxi
Time/ Temporal
when? how often? how long?
He goes to church
every Sunday
Accompaniment
Who/ what else?
I left work
without my briefcase
Matter
what about?
This book is talking
about functional grammar
Cause
Purpose
what for?
He went to the shop
for cigarettes
Behalf
for whom?
He went to the shop
for his mother
Reason
why? how?
The sheep died
of thirst
Role
as what?
He lived a quiet life
as a bee keeper
PROCESSES
Non-Relational Processes: Processes of Doing
Behavioral
Behavioral Processes
Processes of physiological and psychological behavior (e.g. breathing, dreaming, snoring, smiling, hiccuping, looking, watching, listening, and pondering)
Behavioral
Range (names the behavior enacted)
Behaver (conscious being)
Mental
Mental Processes
Process
Feeling (affective or reactive)
Thinking (Cognitive)
Perceiving through the five sense (Perceptive)
Participant
Phenomenon
Senser (Conscious being)
Verbal
Verbal Processes
processes of saying or symbolically signalling
Verbal Process (a signaling)
Others
Receiver (the one to whom the verbalization is addressed)
Target (one acted upon verbally; insulted, complimented)
Range/ Verbiage (a name of verbalization itself)
Sayer (the projecting clause encodes a signal source)
Material
Express the notion that some entity physically does something (may be done to some other entity)
Participant (a doer)
Actor
Process (doing)
Goal (an entity which may be done)
is most likely the traditional direct object (only transitive verbs)
Range
only occurs with no Goal
If there's goal, it can take
resultative attribute
Range
element that specifies the scope or domain of the Process
Relational Processes: Processes of Being and Having
1st Classification
Attributive (irreversible)
Carrier
Attribute
e.g: A whale is a mammal <=/=> A mammal is a whale
Identifying (reversible)
Token
Value
e.g.: Barry Tuckwell may be the finest living horn player <=> The finest living horn player may be Barry Tuckwell
2nd Classification
Possessive
Paul Keating has dark hair
Circumstantial
as Attribute
The yolk is in the center
as Process
Albumen surrounds the yolk
Intensive
Paul Keating is arrogant
Existential
Existential
Existent (phenomenon of any kind)
Circumstance
the word "there" may be omitted
Meteorological
It's hot, It's windy, It's five o'clock
EXTRA PARTICIPANTS and CAUSATION
Initiator (a third participant)
Material
The devil (initiator) made me do it
Attributor (
Relational Processes: Attributive
)
She (attributor) drives me crazy
Assigner (the one who assigns the identity)
Identifying
They (assigner) call me Bruce
Inducer
Mental Process
She (inducer) made me rethink my attitudes