DATA:
Four German children owe their lives to an early night
ANALYSIS:
Four German children = Token
owe = Process: relational: identifying: possessive
their lives = Value
to an early night = Cause: Reason realised incongruently as Beneficiary
Compare:
Four German children owe their life savings to an email scammer
[owe (somebody something) is a possessive verb of benefaction serving as an identifying process (Halliday & Matthiessen 2004: 246)]
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