The man The scary man
The scary man in the back row is John Brown
The scary man who became frightened He
Based on the book entitled “A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language” 1985:1238-1239 proposed by Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Suartvik
stated that a noun phrase contains the following constituent parts, they are: a.
The Head, it is the main noun that is modified by other elements in a noun phrase, for example:
- The scary boy sitting in the back row is my ex-boyfriend.
- I saw a scary boy in the back row which was full of audiences.
b. The determinative which is used to modify a head, for example:
- All the students
- Some new brand clothes
c. The premodification, which comprise all the items placed before the head, for
example: -
Some beautiful ladies -
All discount items d. The postmodification, which comprise all items placed notably, for example:
- The scary man in the back row
- The mall that located in the center of city
1.2.7 Concept of Tree Diagram
A sentence is a group or set of words as a basic unit of language which is usually based on grammatical units in uttering, conveying and expressing a thought to
mean and intend something based on purpose. According to Brown and Miller 1982; 17, there are a number of ways of indicating the constituent structure, such as by
bracketing labeled and bracket strings, tree diagram, and vine diagram. Tree diagram or Phrase Structure Rule is well known as the most effective syntactic ways
in describing the constituent structure of sentence based on lexical categories. Brown and Miller 1982; 61
– 97 have recommended the syntactic categories based on lexical categories such as:
SC : Sentence Clause
VP : Verb Phrase
NP : Noun Phrase
PP : Prepositional Phrase
AdjP : Adjective Phrase AdvP : Adverb Phrase
V : Verb
N : Noun
Adj : Adjective
Adv : Adverb
Prep : Preposition
Art : Article
Det : Determiner
There is a relation between the head of a phrase category and its part since lexical classes are classified into subclasses on the base of the number and the nature
of their constituent within the phase. There is Phrase Structure Rules proposed by Noam Chomsky 1957 in his
book entitled Syntactic Structure. It is related to the Tree Diagram in determining the rules of how lexical formed phrases, as follows in the following paragraph:
Phrase Structure Rules
NP : DET Adj N PP
VP : AUX V NP NP PP CP
PP : P NP
AP : ADV ADJ PP CP
S : NP VP
1.3 Theoretical Framework
In this present study, the word formation or morphological process and the syntactical position of adjectives will be analyzed by using the theory proposed by
