| Process type (过程类型) | Category meaning (意义) | Participants (参与者) |
| Material (物质): Action (行为) Event (事件) | “doing”(做) “Doing”(做) “Happening”(发生) | Actor (动作者), Goal (目标) |
| Behavioral (行为) | “Behaving”(行为) | Behaver (行为者) |
| Mental (心理): Perception (感觉) Affection (情感) Cognition (认知) | “Sensing”(感知)) “Seeing”(看) “Feeling”(感觉) “Thinking”(思考) | Senser (感知者), Phenomenon (现象) |
| Verbal (言语) | “Saying”(说) | Sayer (讲话者),Target (讲话对象) |
| Relational (关系): Attribution (归属) Identification (识别) | “Being”(是) “Attributing”(归属) “Identifying”(识别) | Carrier (载体),Attribute (属性) Identified (被识别者),Identifier(识别者),Token (标记),Value (价值) |
| Existential (存在) | “Existing”(存在) | Existent (存在物) |