functional Grammar, Applied Linguistics(sentences analysis)

PART 1

Analyse the following sentences for transitivity . For each sentence break the sentence up into ranking clauses , one clause per line . Then analyse each clause for transitivity on a separate line . You do not need to analyse the transitivity structure of embedded clauses

He tried not to cry

Actor Process : material but some little tears dropped on to his cheeks

Actor Process : material Circumstance : location He is only just leaving school now

Actor Process : material Goal I won 't be beaten by a woman

Goal Process : material

Actor Nobody likes this bit

Senser Process : mental Phenomenon You will know sandstone

Senser Process : mental Phenomenon when you see it

Senser Process : mental Phenomenon Anwar 's allies stressed that their man had no immediate design on the top job

Sayer Process : verbal Verbiage Tom and Willie stood outside and watched them leaving

Actor Process : material Circumstance : location Process : mental Phenomenon We lack the proper tools

Carrier Process : possessive Attribute Many mansions line the harbour

Existent Process : existential Circumstance : location spatial (where Women who form relationships with prisoners often believe they alone understand the men , and can reform them

Senser Process : mental Phenomenon The of this essay is the extension of RST

Carrier Process : intenstive attributive Attribute Is the camera too small

Process : relational Carrier Attribute Look around , I said to myself

Verbiage Sayer Process : verbal Receiver Last month , after a nine-week trial , the peer was awarded ?1 .5 million by a jury in that action

Circumstance : location - temporal (when ) Beneficiary Process : Material Goal Actor She could sing classical music quite well , and play the piano , but it was the Greek folk tunes I remember best

Actor Process : Material Goal Circumstance : manner Process : Material Goal Circumstance : matter Cash prizes will be offered to the winners

Goal Process : Material Beneficiary The senior aide said last night there will be carrot and stick clauses

Sayer Process : verbal Circumstance : location - temporal (when ) Verbiage The big man laughed

Actor Process : Material This was the best time of his life

Carrier Process : relational Attribute What assurances the Minister can [ .] give the Scottish travelling public[ ?]

Verbiage Actor Process : verbal Receiver Father Poole had sent a large parcel containing clothes and shoes to the hospital just before he was released

Actor Process : Material Goal Beneficiary The new father will by that time have realized more fully the extent of his wife 's preoccupation with the baby and resent its unexpected effects on their relationship

Senser Process : mental Phenomenon I doubt if exclusivity in a relationship is something he values

Senser Process : mental Phenomenon This is very serious

Carrier Process : intenstive attributive Attribute They were struck by her beauty

Goal Process : mental Phenomenon In the underworld honesty isn 't always the best policy

Carrier Process : intenstive attributive Attribute you [D]o [ .] have to cross lonely stretches of ground between your home and the bus stop or railway station[ ?]

Actor Process : material Goal The territory doesn 't have its own satellite station

Carrier Process : Possessive...