Common use of Syntactic Functions of Nodes Clause in Contracts

Syntactic Functions of Nodes. The syntactic functions of nodes also play a role in the annotation of TFA. We concentrated on free modifiers or adjuncts (of place and time); see lines 3 and 6 of Table 3. Due to the tendency in Czech to place the verb in the second position in the sentence, it is quite usual that contextually bound adjuncts of place and time (so-called settings) occur after the verb and it is thus difficult to decide about their contextual boundness, even more so in the case of concrete specifications. Therefore we wanted to check the proportion of disagreements in free modifiers relative to all disagreements: according to line 6 they form about one tenth of all disagreements between T and F. We also examined for free modifiers the disagreements between C and T – these should not be too important, because it is arguments (inner participants) that tend to be contrastive (due to their semantic relevance). The results nonetheless are not as low as we expected and they again show the difficulties in the definition of the notion of contrast.