%gra and %mor tiers

[Simge Topaloglu]

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


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