Misconstruing A Mood Adjunct (Temporality) As A Continuity Item [2]

Martin (1992: 230):

[4:163] CONJUNCTION The results are significant.

                                 Finally let me consider the question of applicability. 

            CONTINUITY    Ben trained for hours

                                 and by eleven he'd finally finished.

Blogger Comment:

The function of finally here is interpersonal: a mood Adjunct of temporality, and so it does not mark a logical relation with the previous clause in the clause complex.

and	by eleven	he	‘d	finally	finished
	circumstantial Adjunct	Subject	Finite	mood Adjunct: temporality	Predicator
	Resi-	Mood			-due