The kind of structure created in this way is a univariate one, a series of repetitions of the same grammatical unit (here, a clause), each related to another in various ways.
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A univariate structure is generated by recurrence of the same function. Halliday (1994: 193):
We refer to this kind of structure as a univariate structure, a structure generated by the recurrence of the same function: α is modified by β, which is modified by γ, which is ... .
To be clear, univariate structures do not necessarily involve repetitions of the same grammatical unit, as the authors later (p231) acknowledge. The units in question merely serve the same function, as when an adverbial group and a prepositional phrase in a complex serve as circumstance:
He threw it enthusiastically but without skill.
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