Hello,
I am trying to extract instances where the conjunction 'and' connects elements of the same syntactic category that form a constituent together, e.g., complex subjects like "John and Mary" as in "John and Mary like apples" or complex objects as in "John likes apples and pears" or - though I know this is presumably trickier - VPs as in "John likes apples and hates pears."
The first code I tried for an approximation of what I wanted was combo +d7 +sg|SUBJ^g|CONJ^g|COORD +t%mor +t%gra.
This found all subjects immediately followed by a conjunction immediately followed by the element that was conjoined with this subject. But as you will notice, there are things this code doesn't get. For example, I am only interested in and, but this code finds other conjunctions like or as well. I tried to incorporate this information into the code using the %mor tier (coord|and), but I think I made a mistake because I got a blank output. Also, while I can make this code work for subjects and objects, I don't know how I will extract cases of VP-level conjunction, because the heads of the conjoined phrases (the verbs) will not necessarily be adjacent.
Any help for solving these problems would be much appreciated.
Thank you so much,
Simge