CLAUSE AS REPRESENTATION

Metafunctions :
• Textual (present as message in clause) Theme/Rheme
• Interpersonal (enacts as proposition) Mood/ Residue
• Experiential (change as figure) configuration of process, participants and any circumstances
Processes
A kind of process types;
Material (doing, happening)
Mental (sensing)
Behavioral (behaving)
Clause types (process)
Verbal (saying)
Relational (being, having)
Existential (existing)

Process Participant(s) Circumtances

Verbal group Nominal group Adverbial group/
prepositional phrase

A. Material Process
The participants or the forms it could involved Actor & Goal
Actor is the participants that doing an action. Goal is the participants that effects by an action by an Actor.
She Was Making Cookies
Actor Process Goal

She Was Fallen At Kitchen

Actor Process Circumstances

Brownies Was not Baked In 25 minute

Goal Process Circumstances

The firefighters Helped to evacuate The people from the fire

Actor Circumstances Process Goal

The people Were evacuated By the firefighter

Goal Process Actor
B. Mental Process
The participants are : Senser & Phenomenon
Phenomenon is participant role in the transitivity structure of a mental clause (micro, macro (acts) , meta
(facts) ). The phenomenon sensed by a Senser.
Senser in bold
Phenomenon in italic
He saw them leaving the room
These student don’t understand mathematics
Rina recognized the environment and girls around her always known her
The professor thought we should get our task
Nabila afraid nothing

C. Behavioral Process
The participants : Behaver (+Range)
1. She was singing
2. They played guitar
3. We were reading the newspaper
D. Verbal
The participants : Sayer and Verbiage (+receiver)
1. My mom told me the history
2. She couldn’t talk
E. Relational process
• Attributive : The participants; Carrier & Attribute
• Identifying : The participants; Token & Value

Carrier is participants that described or construed by attribute, Attribute is participants that

describing relation of carrier.
Carrier Process Attribute Circumstances
The pants are very expensive
You are a diligent
The flower are beautiful everyday
 Identifying is clause that relationship between identifier and identified or token and value.
Identifier Process Identified
Token Value
The apple is a one of member of vitamin A
The story expresses the authors feeling
This problem discusses kids behavior

F. Existential Process
The participants : Existent (+Circumstances)
1. There is cockroach in my room
2. There is ant in my juice
G. The range Participant
• The element was specifically in clause about the scope of range
• There is any complement.
H. Circumstantiation
• Location : Where? and When? (in, at, into, under, bottom, by, etc)
• Extent : how long? and how far? (for, along, across ,etc)
• Manner : a comparison and respond how? (like or unlike)
• Cause : why ? (because of, the result)
• Accompaniment : with who/what?( with and without)
• Role : what as?
• Matter : what about?