Saturday 1 August 2015

Encoding Clause With Theme Predication Vs Existential Clauses

it
was
John
[[who painted the shed]]
Theme: predicated
Rheme
Sub-
Finite
Complement
-ject
Val-/Ident-
Process: identifying
Token/Identifier
-ue/-ified


there
was
John [[who painted the shed]]
Theme
Rheme
Subject
Finite
Complement

Process: existential
Existent


perhaps
there
was
one [[who didn’t lecture]]
Theme
Rheme
mood Adjunct: modality
Subject
Finite
Complement


Process: existential
Existent

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