Representation of Syntactic Structures with Coordinating Conjunctions and Homonymy

Abstract

The paper discusses sentences with coordinating conjunctions and homonymy where it is hard or impossible to build feasible syntactic structures using well-known models – dependency-based parse trees, constituency-based parse trees, and syntactic groups model. We suggest an approach to represent syntactic structures of sentences with conjunctions. We present features which distinguish our approach from the models under investigation. The paper shows multiple ways of visualization of syntactic structures. We illustrate how homonymy influences parsing and give examples of lexical and syntactic homonymy. We show the need to represent homonymy explicitly and suggest an approach to homonymy representation in morphological and syntactic structures.