SYNTACTICAL ANALYSIS OF PHRASES AND SENTENCECS FOUND IN THE SONG’S LYRIC “THE WORLD’S SMALLEST VIOLIN” BY AJR

Muhammad Raihan Islami, Istiqamah Ardila

Abstract


This study focuses on syntactic analysis on sentences and phrases in the song's lyrics "The World's Smallest Violin" by AJR using tree diagram theory. The aims of this study are to find out the types of the phrases used in AJR “The World's Smallest Violin” song lyrics and the sentence patterns used in AJR “The World's Smallest Violin” song lyrics. The object of this study is AJR’s song lyrics entitle “The World's Smallest Violin”. The method of this study is qualitative analysis. The technique of collecting the data through three steps. The steps include: (1) preparing and organizing, (2) coding, and (3) representing the data. The findings show that there are 22 sentences, 1 noun phrase, 4 verb phrases, 1 prepositional phrases, 1 adverb phrases, 7 conjunctional and 3 sentence bar in the lyrics. The most common pattern of senteces are S = NP + VP.


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syntactical analysis, song lyrics, tree diagram

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