Grammar Analysis
§ The title of short
story : The Lady or the Tiger.
§ The author : Frank Stockton.
§ The summary of
short story
This short story tells
about the system of kingdom justice in long time ago that had unusual rules to
punish the commoners who broke the laws or rules. It occurred because this
kingdom had semi-barbaric king. The running of this rule was the guilty people
would be in the arena that would be all people of kingdom there and gave them
choices. There would be two choices that was the two doors which had lady and
tiger behind both of these doors. If the guilty people chose the door which
there was tiger, then the tiger would kill that people. Besides, when they
chose door which there was lady, then the people would get that lady to be
married. Furthermore, one day there was young courtier had screwed the princess
of this kingdom. This young courtier was from lower class and then the King got
embracement if it occurred. Finally, King put the young courtier to the arena
to be punished because of his guilty.
§ Explanation about
the sentence
The sentence that is
taken to be analysed, is using the beginning paragraph of short story. This
sentence is found in the first sentence of paragraph. It is the sentence that
take large influence in this short story because it explains the main character
of this short story.
§ Analysis of the
sentence
ü The first clause is Independent (α).
In the very olden time(A) there(S) lived(P) a semi-barbaric king(C),
ü The second clause is Dependent (β).
whose ideas(A), though(A) somewhat(A) polished and
sharpened(P) by(A) the progressiveness
of distant Latin neighbours(C), were(P) still(A)
large, florid, and untrammelled(C), as became(A)
the half of him(A) which(A) was(P)
barbaric(C).
The structure of this sentence consists of subject,
predicate, compliment and adjunct. Then, including the independent and
dependent clauses that support this sentence.
ü The
first clause includes independent clause (α).
It occurs because it doesn’t need other object or complement to describe the
additional information to make it more clear and understandable. People will
understand this sentence easily because it can stand alone on its own sentence.
ü The
second clause is dependent clause (β).
It occurs because this clause cannot stand alone and it need to be attached to
an independent clause to form a sentence.
ü In
the first clause, the position “there” as
the subject of sentence. Then, “semi-barbaric
king” is as the complement of this sentence. On the other hand, the real
position of “semi-barbaric king” is
as object of action. It occurred because the person that is told by this
sentence is actually this king.
ü In
the second clause, we have “the
progressiveness of distant Latin neighbours” as the complement of this
clause. Besides, the real position in doing action of this clause is as the
actor of this clause. It happens because it is the kind of passive sentence
that has its actor position in the complement side.
ü In
the second clause, these is “polished and
sharpened”. This clause is the kind of parallelism because there is “and” as the conjunction of these two
verbs and it named as parataxis or parallel sentence.
ü In
the second clause, there is predicate “were
and was”. In this case, the
position of both of them is for identifying something that need clarification
and more information because it is nominal sentence.
§ What question arises
from the pattern?
This sentence has
complicated pattern in structuring the sentence. The author also used the kind
of difficult words in the way explained the message to the readers. Besides,
when we analyse this sentence, we will get difficulties to recognize what kinds
of positions that are had by words in this sentence. Therefore, there will be
many questions arise from people who want to analyse this sentence such as
where the position of each word, what the function of the word and then which
independent and dependent clause.
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