Sauf, soit, dont as CCONJ #

“sauf”, “soit”, “dont” resemble coordination but do not always meet the syntactic criteria for standard conjunctive constructions. This guide clarifies how to annotate them consistently in terms of POS tags and dependency relations.

We distinguish here between:

• Additive coordination (conj:coord)
• Appositive coordination (conj:appos)

“sauf” #

Function: Subtractive connector, introduces an exception to a preceding phrase.
POS: CCONJ
Deprel: Prefer conj:appos over conj:coord when the second conjunct is a proper subset or exception.

“soit” #

Function: introduces alternatives. POS: always CCONJ, even in non-standard or elliptical uses. Deprel: conj:coord for disjunctions, conj:appos for appositional clarification.

Coordinative use

“soit” is a CCONJ, and the deprel conj:coord is used to connect the two prepositional phrases.

Appositive use

“soit” is a CCONJ, and the deprel conj:appos is used to link together the appositive element with the first element.

“dont” #

Function: two distinct uses:
Relative pronoun ⇒ PRON introducing a relative clause.
Appositive connector ⇒ CCONJ introducing an appositive subpart.

Relative use

“dont” is a PRON, part of mod@relcl.

Appositive use

dont” is a CCONJ, and the deprelconj:appos is used to link together the appositive element with the first element.