In this way, the meaning of the text can be understood clearly. The application of the framework of SFG to analyze a text can avoid evaluating at will. The article shows an analysis of a text “A grandmother with muscles” based on systemic Mark Haliday‟s functional grammar in terms of transitivity, mood and theme-rheme pattern. The findings show that the text is narrative which can be featured by the following characteristics: material and relational processes, simple past and simple present (transitivity), personal subjects, declaratives, no modal elements (mood) and ideational component, unmarked themes (theme-rheme). |
