Investigating Mood System and Structure on Written Text of Mark Gospel on New Testament of Kupang Malay: A Systemic Functional Linguistic Perspective

Abstract

This paper was aimed to describe mood system of Mark Gospel, New Testament of Kupang Malay language called Janji Baru. Data were taken from the Bible, New Testament especially in Mark Gospel that consisted of 16 chapters. All data were analyzed qualitatively and the analysis was based on systemic functional linguistics theory focusing on mood system and structure. The result showed that mood system in texts were realized by indicative and imperative types. The indicative type covered declarative and interrogative type. Declarative type consisted of exclamation and affirmative types. The affirmative type was the most used rather than others. Modalization and modulation were used in text, i.e Dia mesti batahan iko tarus ‘ He must keep following’, Dong dapa pegang dia pung kaen sa ‘ They can only hold his cloths’ MOOD structure of text for (1) affirmative is S^P Yesus tau dong pung pikiran ‘Jesus knows their thought’; (2) exclamative is EW^S^P Naa! Dia su mati! ‘Naa! He had died !’; (3) imperative is P^C Dengar bae-bae ‘Listen carefully’!; and for (4) yes/no interrogative is S^ P Lu su bisa dapa lia ko? ‘You can see Him?; and (5) wh-interrogative is S^P^QW Bapatua omong apa? ‘That old man say what?’. Interpersonal resources were used to get and share information who Jesus Christ was. Through it, followers of Jesus Christ got understanding and trusting Jesus as The Son of God.