Name: Benz Louijie E.

De Paz_____
Year/Courses/Section: BAELS 3-1

Application of the Transitivity Analysis on the short story titled.

“Jack and the Beanstalk”.

Analyze the short story and assign a code for each example.

For example,
S1 for sentence 1
S2 for sentence 2
C1 for clause 1
C2 for clause 2, etc.

You may also write

S1C1 which pertains to Clause 1 from Sentence 1

S2C1 for clause 2 from sentence 1, and so on.

Write all the transitivity processes that are present in the short story and
opposite, write their examples and the corresponding sources/codes. Below,
make a general interpretation of the dominant processes that are seen in the
story. Write some implications

TRANSITIVITY PROCESS SOURCE / CODE EXAMPLE

Existential Process S1C1 Once upon a time there lived a poor

widow and her son Jack.

Material Process S1C2 One day, Jack’s mother told him to sell
their only cow.

Mental Process S2C1 Jack went to the market and on the

way, he met a man who wanted to buy
his cow.

Verbal Process S3C1 Jack asked, “What will you give me in

return for my cow?”

Verbal Process S3C2 The man answered, “I will give you five
magic beans!”
 Material Process S4C1 Jack took the magic beans and gave
the man the cow.

Behavioral Process S4C2 But when he reached home, Jack’s

mother was very angry.

Verbal Process S5C1 She said, “You fool! He took away your
cow and gave you some beans!”

Material Process S6C1 She threw the beans out of the

window.

Behavioral Process S6C2 Jack was very sad and went to sleep
without dinner.

Material Process S8C1 The next day, when Jack woke up in

the morning and looked out of the
window,

Mental Process S8C2 he saw that a huge beanstalk had

grown from his magic beans!

Material Process S9C1 He climbed up the beanstalk and

reached a kingdom in the sky.

Existential Process S10C1 There lived a giant and his wife.

Material Process S10C2 Jack went inside the house and found
the giant’s wife in the kitchen.

Verbal Process S11C1 Jack said, “Could you please give me

something to eat? I am so hungry!”

Material Process S12C1 The kind wife gave him bread and
some milk.

Material Process S13C1 While he was eating, the giant came

home.

Mental Process S13C2 The giant was very big and looked very
fearsome.

Behavioral Process S14C1 Jack was terrified and went and hid
inside.
 Verbal Process S14C2 The giant cried, “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell
the blood of an Englishman. Be he
alive, or be he dead,

Material Process S15C1 I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!”

Verbal Process S15C2 The wife said, “There is no boy in

here!”

Material Process S16C1 So, the giant ate his food and then
went to his room.

Material Process S16C2 He took out his sacks of gold coins,

counted them, and kept them aside.
Then he went to sleep.

Material Process S17C1 In the night, Jack crept out of his hiding
place, took one sack of gold coins, and
climbed down the beanstalk.

Material Process S19C1 At home, he gave the coins to his

mother.

Behavioral Process S19C2 His mother was very happy and they
lived well for some time.

Material Process S21C1 He climbed the beanstalk and went to

the giant’s house again.

Relational Process S21C2 Once again, Jack asked the giant’s

wife for food,

Material Process S22C1 but while he was eating the giant

returned.

Material Process S22C2 Jack leapt up in fright and went and hid
under the bed.

Verbal Process S23C1 The giant cried, “Fee-fifo-fum, I smell

the blood of an Englishman. Be he
alive, or be he dead

Material Process S24C1 , I’ll grind his bones to make my

bread!”
 Verbal Process S24C2 The wife said, “There is no boy in
here!”

Material Process S25C1 The giant ate his food and went to his
room.

Existential Process S25C2 There, he took out a hen. He shouted,

“Lay!” and the hen laid a golden egg.

Material Process S26C1 When the giant fell asleep, Jack took
the hen and climbed down the
beanstalk.

Behavioral Process S27C1 Jack’s mother was very happy with

him.

Material Process S28C1 After some days, Jack once again

climbed the beanstalk and went to the
giant’s castle.

Relational Process S29C1 For the third time,.

Mental Process S29C2 Jack met the giant’s wife and asked for
some food

Material Process S29C3 Once again, the giant’s wife gave him
bread and milk.

Verbal Process S30C1 But while Jack was eating,

Material Process S30C2 the giant came home. “Fee-fi-fo-fum, I

smell the blood of an Englishman. Be
he alive, or be he dead

Verbal Process S31C1 I’ll grind his bones to make my bread!”

cried the giant

Verbal Process S32C1 “Don’t be silly! There is no boy in here!”

said his wife.

Material Process S33C1 The giant had a magical harp that could
play beautiful songs.

Verbal Process S33C2 While the giant slept, Jack took the
harp and was about to leave.
Relational Process S34C1 Suddenly, the magic harp cried, “Help
master!

Material Process S34C2 A boy is stealing me!

Mental Process S35C1 The giant woke up and saw Jack with
the harp.

Behavioral Process S35C2 Furious, he ran after Jack. But Jack

was too fast for him.

Material Process S36C1 He ran down the beanstalk and

reached home.

Material Process S36C2 The giant followed him down.

Mental Process S37C1 Jack quickly ran inside his house and
fetched an axe.

Material Process S37C2 He began to chop the beanstalk.

Material Process S38C1 The giant fell and died.

Behavioral Process S39C1 Jack and his mother were now very rich
and they lived happily ever after.
INTERPRETATION:

In order to develop a theory of human existence, transitivity works (Halliday &

Matthiessen, 2004). Reality is composed of operations of moving forward, occurring,
happening, feeling, understanding, becoming, and exisiting, according to Halliday and
Matthiessen (2004). Thompson (2004) asserts that the phenomenological views
language as a collection of t

uools for describing the environment's objects and the manner that those things
interact with or connect to one another. In the purest sense, language shapes how we
see the environment to be composed of actions comprising subjects that may include
descriptors and that compete with collocations. Isti'anah, Arina. (2015) Each scenario
type, according to Halliday (1994), consists of three elements: the process, the players
with in procedure, and the conditions that pertain to the process. The process is what
makes up the circumstance, and a verb makes it happen.

Transitivity analysis has been employed in this study to analyse the short story
entitled “Jack and the Beanstalk”. The Unit of Analysis is sentence and clause, 60
clauses and 39 sentences were analyzed. The analysis of the selected data revealed
that all of the six processes mentioned by Halliday i.e. Mental, Material, Verbal,
Behavioural, Relational, and Existential have been found in the short story.

The short story's material and verbal process represents the first and second
most prevalent processes. This indicates that the author of the short tale most likely
identified the occurrences of the narrative by pointing them out in the context of what
was occurring and exactly what the individuals are doing. Introduction, events, and
conclusion make up the basic framework of a narrative tale. Storytelling texts frequently
employ the material to construct the happenings from the general framework thus
making it more enticing towards the readers while verbal process enables the setting
up of dialectic sequences, this method of speaking aids in the production of story and it
also encompasses any type of metaphorical interchange of meanings.

The third-most prevelant processes is Behavioral Processes, this is given

especially when we consider that the character’s behavior changes drastically and
dramatically throughout the whole story. This process explains the biological and
behavioral activity of (usually human) beings. The limits of patterns and processes are
ambiguous. As such it resemble both the physical and the psychological in different
ways, such examples involves breathing, coughing, smiling, dreaming etc., and some
of these are present in the analysis. Due to the ambiguity in the defining of their nature
as well as the confusion of this process, it is therefore given that it is one of the least
distinctive of all the process categories. Additional processes are also present in other
textual sections, but they are not as prevalent as the processes mentioned above,
these are mental, existential and relational.
 Therefore, statistically speaking, 43% of all the clauses belongs to material
process, legitimazing the dominance of material process in story telling. While 19% are
verbal process and 12% percent for behavioral process. This means that the 26% of all
the transitivity clauses belongs to the remaining 3 process. Location, Time and Manner,
and Accompaniment are other factors that the story mentions.

There are also a lot of different similarities when we do compare the transitivity
analysis of the story towards other short stories. This is given due to the nature and
how do writer’s write their own story, the insights of the story together with its
transitivity properties, the relationship between the mind of the writer, the language
being used and the presence of the readers gives an essence of commonalities on
their reading experiences. This may be highlighted with innovative strategies towards
storytelling that focus on the cognitive elements of characterization portrayal and
comprehension. Because like many different stories or literary works, regardless of
genre, it all comes down to the writer’s perspective, style and purpose, and given that
in storytelling there is a particular concept that is being used and that involves
Transitivity Analysis since more often than not, there is a systematic sameness of a
particular type of process and most of it belongs to material process.

But in a real-life scenario, things are going to be different since that defines it
would also be different regardless if it can be a part of a literary or not literary text, a
fictional character like Jack and the Giant’s wife shows the epitomy of human
benevolence towards each other, we show empathy towards other people and then we
feel sense of belonging towards that person that we’ve helped but sometimes, things
can be different because sometimes people will abuse that benevolence eventhough
you have given their 5 senses fruitful things, but that is the beauty of human vision,
such example of that trait is given in one of the additional reading materials given that
states the abilitiy of human vision allows us to give particular objects greater attention
and concern than others, because we are context aware. This potential is aptly
illustrated by our capability to distinguish objects from one's environments, determine
proximity and distance, monitor and anticipate spatial movement and comprehend
agency when an item acts on another. This capacity is also clearly demonstrated by
analyzing and identifying in and out new accents, flavors, odours, and physical styles.
Intentions, wants, sentiments, and thoughts, as well as any storytelling that might aid in
examining a fictitious person's thought processes, are included in this category. When
considering the thought patterns of those who are hurting, it is critical to take into
consideration the history and surroundings that contribute to personal development,
which can be clearly seen through Jack, the Giant and the Giant’s wife.

To sum it all up, the transitivity analysis of the short story realignes with other
analysis that pertains to storytelling and the percentages of the 6 process do have a
similar connotation in real life scenarios eventhough the characters are completely
fictional, it considers the writer’s perspective while writing the story as well as the
reader’s perspective when reading the story. It creates a dimension wherein people
can understand the aspects of the story, without diving deep in each individual parts.
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