Misconstruing A Conjunctive Adjunct (Concessive Condition) And A Circumstance (Extent) As Continuatives Of Time

Martin & Rose (2007: 142):

And other continuatives realise time:

If I had to watch how white people became dissatisfied with the best and still wanted better and got it. 

I finally understand what the struggle was really about. 

'those at the top' were again targeting the next 'permanent removal from society'.

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[1] To be clear, in SFL Theory, when still has the temporal sense of 'even now/then', as it does in this instance, it functions interpersonally as a mood Adjunct of temporality (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 188). As a conjunctive Adjunct, still — like nevertheless — marks the cohesive conjunctive relation of concessive condition (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 614)

[2] To be clear, in SFL Theory, this instance of finally marks the textually cohesive temporal relation of 'conclusive'; see Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 614).

[3] To be clear, in SFL Theory, this instance of the adverb again functions experientially as a circumstance of Extent: frequency.  As Halliday & Matthiessen (2014: 158) point out:

And the same item may function sometimes circumstantially and sometimes conjunctively; for example then, at that moment, later on, again…