performs, effects and instigate or control the situation can be classified as Actor. So, the Agent in sentence 1 is clearly the actor.
The test is not only available for the agent of sentence but also to the patient of sentence. by making frame of questions, Saeed test the perform of
patient.
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19 What did X do?
20 a. What happened to Y was...
b. What X did to Y was... The question of frame above is the suggestion of determining and
testing the agent and patient in sentence. 21
Jane threw the ball 22
What Jane did was to throw the ball 23
a. What happened to the ball was that Jane threw it b. What Jane did to the ball was throw it
The test above shows that Jane is the agent and the ball is the patient of sentence.
In conclusion, using this test which suggested by Saeed, the writer will determine the thematic roles in opinion article
„What Ever Happened in Kraras, Timor Leste „Pak‟ Prabowo?‟ and identify the function of each
thematic roles in sentences of that article.
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Ibid. p.151
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CHAPTER III DATA ANALYSIS
A. Data Description
In this research, the writer explains text written by Aboeprijadi Santoso taken from The Jakarta Post opinion‟s article What Ever Happened in Kraras,
Timor Leste, „Pak‟ Prabowo? The article contains 27 paragraphs which contain 44 sentences. Then, those sentences are selected by the thematic role applied in
the text. The 44 data are founded by classified into the complete and incomplete form of sentence to determine the thematic role subject, predicate, object, and
complement. Then, by selecting the complete form the 24 data are applied in analysis. Furthermore, the collected data are analysed with thematic roles of John
I Saeed to explaining the role of thematic role.
1. The Concept of Article ‘What Ever Happened in Kraras pak Prabowo?
There are some concepts developed by Aboeprijadi Santoso to guide reader into the imagine. He applied some political issue as a main point to
draw the event in order to explain as clear as the tragedy in the past. He also draws the personal character inside another character through Prabowo‟s
colleague. Then, the whole tragedy is detailed in times, step by step, and people involved.
B. Analysis of Thematic Role
1. Classification of Thematic Role
1 Datum 1
The sentence show one entity, Prabowo Subianto which is delivered
by the predicate is and the complement One of the most interesting and most
controversial presidential hopefuls. The sentence portrays the entity as the position of Prabowo Subianto, the importance of his role. So, the sentence
describes that Prabowo Subianto is a theme of sentence. The theme applied by the explanation of complement. There are the
complement used for describe the wide of theme, One of the most interesting and most controversial presidential hopeful. In the first sentence, the sentence
are described clearly. It can be the way to make the reader stay on the article. 2
Datum 2
This sentence identifies four entities, He, public attention, new ideas and policy initiatives, related by the action described by the verb attract and
offer. The sentence draws these entities in specific roles: He which referred to Let.Gen ret Prabowo Subianto as existed in the previous sentence, is the
entity responsible for initiating the action, public attention, new ideas and policy initiatives are the objects acted upon and has its position changed by
He is among the view who have both attracted public attention and
offered new ideas and policy initiatives.
One of the most interesting and most controversial presidential hopefuls is no doubt, Lt. Gen ret. Prabowo Subianto.
the action. Such roles have a number of labels in semantics, including the theory of classification of participants as explained by John.I. Saeed. He
examines the notion of thematic roles by sketching and the basic picture of thematic roles to be assumed by much of the syntax and semantics literature.
Based on theory which is explained in chapter 2, the writer can describe the
thematic roles by calling He the agent of the action, public attention, new ideas and policy initiatives are the theme.
The datum shows that the Agent is directed to „He‟ which referred to Let.Gen ret Prabowo Subianto as existed in the previous sentence. The
Process is characterized by the verb in sentence. The datum above shows „attracted‟ as the Process in sentence. There are two Process such as
„attracted‟ and „offered‟. Both are exist in clause of sentence. The Affected things are „public attention‟ and „policy initiatives‟.
Specifically, the writer of article uses the same agent in previous sentence
„One of the most interesting and most controversial presidential hopefuls, is no doubt, Lt. Gen. ret. Prabowo Subianto‟ . The action is used
in past tense to make sense the time. The theme is applied in countable and non countable. The countable of theme are applied in ideas from the
singular idea and initiatives from the singular initiative. The non countable theme attention means notice, thought, or interest.
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A.S. Hornby, “Initiative”. In Sally Wehmeier Ed., Oxford Advanced Learner‟s Dictionary of
Current English 3rd ed.. Oxford University Press: Oxford.,2000 p.699
