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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter covers the findings, the analysis and the discussion of the study in order to answer the problem formulated in the Chapter I. The problem
formulated is regarding the patterns of noun phrase with post-noun modification occurring in Marty Natalegawa’s speeches. In presenting the findings, some
examples of each pattern would be selected and presented in the discussion in order to identify the syntactic process of its construction.
After analyzing three speech transcripts delivered by Marty Natalegawa in the international assembly, the researcher discovered 247 noun phrases with post-
noun modification. The distribution of those noun phrases are described in three main patterns of post–noun modification as follows: 1 NP + Prepositional
Phrase, 2 NP + Relative Clause, and 3 NP + Participial Phrase. Each main pattern of post-noun modification is further specifically classified into several
sub-patterns. From those sub-patterns, the noun phrases with post-noun modification are easily collected and grouped based on its patterns. Considering
that classification, the detail proportion of each sub-pattern is depicted in the following table as shown in table 4.1.
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Table 4.1 . The Proportion of the Patterns of the Noun Phrase with Post-Noun
Modification.
No. Patterns Number of
Occurrence Percentage 1.
NP + Prepositional Phrase 180
72.87
A. NP + Prepositional Phrase 103
41.70 B.
NP + Prepositional Phrase modified by relative clause
4 1.62
C. NP + Prepositional Phrase modified by
relative clause with NP + Prepositional Phrase in it
D. NP + Prepositional Phrase more than one
60 24.29 E.
NP + Prepositional Phrase modified by Participial Phrase
13 5.26
2. NP + Relative Clause
31 12.56
A. NP + Relative Clause 18
7.29 B.
NP + Relative Clause with NP + Prepositional Phrase in it
10 4.05
C. NP + Relative clause with another NP +
relative clause in it
D. NP + Relative Clause modified by
Participial Phrase 3
1.21
3. NP + Participial Phrase
36 14.57
A. NP + Participial Phrase 24
9.72 B.
NP + Participial Phrase with NP + Prepositional Phrase in it
12 4.86
C. NP + Participial Phrase + Relative Clause +
Prepositional Phrase
D. NP + Participial Phrase modified by
Relative Clause
Total 247 100
Of those three main patterns of post-noun modification shown in table 4.1, the most frequent pattern to occur in three speech transcripts delivered by Marty