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my director would scream at me
my director Subject
would Finite: modal (usuality)
scream Predicator
at me Adjunct
Halliday & Matthiessen (2004: 658):
A text is meaningful because it is an actualisation of the potential that constitutes the linguistic system; it is for this reason that the study of discourse (‘text linguistics’) cannot properly be separated from the study of the grammar that lies behind it.
She was glad about the decision.
She: Carrier
was: Process: relational
glad: Attribute
about the decision: Matter