Halliday & Matthiessen (1999: 157):
The Range role is quite pervasive, as indicated in Figure 4-7 and Table 4(8) above; it can occur in all types of figure that are construed as self-agentive, and also in certain figures of being that are construed as other-agentive. The Range construes the range or domain of the actualisation of the Process, with reference to taxonomic scope (as in play : play tennis/'volley ball), spatial scope (as in climb : climb mountains/hills), etc.
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To be clear, these are assigned figures of being — those with an Attributor (ascriptive) or Assigner (identifying).