How can I set the clause boundaries?
As I’m trying to mark clause boundaries (main, subordinate & embedded clause); I can’t play my own devil’s advocate anymore, would appreciate any feedback on this, Sentence: With more than
430,000
migrants having reached Europe by sea this year, countries of Europe resurrecting borders they’d once removed, and thousands of people in Calais trying to reach Britain illegally, some people are arguing that we’re on the verge of a ‘great age of migration’, in
Analysis:
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Clause 1 (objects of the preposition ‘with’): With
(more than 430,000 migrants having reached Europe by sea this year), (the countries of Europe resurrecting border ), and (thousands of people in Calais trying to reach Britain illegally), some people argue that the UK has failed. …
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Clause 2 (dependent clause because of verbal process ‘argued’):
(everything after ‘in which’ modifies ‘great age’) that we’re on the verge of a ‘great age of migration’, ].
OR
“Every clause has verbal group, which means I would split up Clause 1 as well.”
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Clause 3 :
in which national governments are powerless
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Clause 4 :
to resist huge numbers of people, travelling the world in search of a better life]].
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The first large preposition phrase containing several sub clauses, functioning as an omissible adjunct, and the subsequent main clause with its own numerous SCs: PP Adjunct With , , and
The PP is headed by/organized by the prep with which (have as its complement 3 coordinated sub clauses in, 2) more than 430,000 migrants having
entered Europe by sea this year. This year.
Where would the countries of Europe resurrecting borders , containing the relative clause they’d once removed which modifies the NP borders?
3) thousands of people in Calais trying containing the clause to reach Britain illegally, which is catenative complement to trying.
Main Clause
]].
The MC contains 4 sub clauses:
1) the large that -content clause as complement to have argued and containing: 2)
the relative in which clause modifying the NP great age of migration, which in turn contains: 3) the
infinitival to resist clause as complement to powerless, which contains: 4) the participial
travelling clause modifying the NP huge numbers of people.
As a catenative verb with reached Europe, then a sub clause as catenative complement. I’ve treated having considered as a constituent i.e. having met by appointment. I’ve tried that, I tried to keep it simple. For all cases. (or a
clause) ‘the verb’.
Since recent generations migrants have squatted Europe over the border, the
countries of Europe resurrecting borders they'd once removed, and thousands of people in Calais are trying to reach Britain illegally, some people claim we're on the verge of 'a great age of migration', in which national governments are powerless to resist huge numbers of people travelling the world in pursuit of a better life.
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