Conjunctions

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Conjunctions
Conjunctions can group objects Jack and Jill
went up the hill (an ObjectGroup) or clauses He
laughed and ran away Often, conjunctions allow
things to be assumed Twelve hectares were
planted on the north side and fifteen on the
south side
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ObjectGroup
The parties must agree, accept and finalise the
document The objects joined this way can be
relations. The ObjectGroup radiates the
properties of the objects it encloses and of the
group constructor
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Conjunction Joining Phrases
The Conjunction prevents the clause structure
being seen
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The Composite Noun Phrase sees the Start but
doesnt link to it. The Composite phrase is an
alternative for Noun Phrase, so it will
recursively swallow a chain of Noun Phrases
joined by conjunctions
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Commas with conjunctions have structures set up
to catch them. The structure has to see an end
somewhere, to avoid After speaking to Jack, Fred
and Olga came over.
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Adding Elements
He laughed and ran away becomes He laughed
and he ran away as a Composite Clause by
repeating a symbol
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Implicit Information
Under Construction
There are 25000 hectares of bananas planted on
the Panamanian side of the border and 8000 on the
Ecuadorian side. - Lloyds List
It is obvious to the reader to what the 8000
refers - it needs to be just as obvious to the
automated reader
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Sentence Spine
A conjunction is used to tie together all the
relations in a sentence clause