Martin, Matthiessen & Painter (2010: 199):
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This analysis is misleading. To be clear, on the criteria of SFL Theory, this clause is a 'near mental' behavioural, not material — not least because the Process necessarily construes a conscious participant. Halliday (1994: 139) and Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 302):
… Some of those in groups (i)–(iii) also regularly feature a prepositional phrase in it with to, at or on: I’m talking to you, don’t look at me, fortune is smiling on us. These are, in origin, circumstances of Place; in the behavioural context they express orientation but we may continue to use that label. (The verb watch is anomalous: in I’m watching you, the tense suggests a behavioural process but the you appears as a participant, like the Phenomenon of a ‘mental’ clause. Since this is restricted to watch, we can label this participant as Phenomenon, indicating the mental analogue.)
On the model of Halliday (± Matthiessen), the clause can be analysed as:
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