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Table 1 Semantic roles in the Sydney transitivity model (Halliday and Matthiessen 2014)

From: Putting transitivity to the test: a review of the Sydney and Cardiff models

Material

Mental

Relational

Verbal

Behavioural

Existential

Actor

Senser

Carrier

Sayer

Behaver

Existent

Goal

Phenomenon

Attribute

Receiver

Behaviour

 

Beneficiary: Recipient

 

Attributor

Verbiage

 

Beneficiary: Client

Identifier

Target

Scope

Identified

 

Initiator

Assigner