In addresses the following are distinguished:

the effective roots of the addressee's name (person or institution) are assigned the functor DENOM (cf. for example: Fig. 8.220), with the exception of addresses which are syntactically incorporated in a sentence, when the functor of these nodes is determined by the position of the address in the sentence structure (cf. for example: Fig. 8.221).

an addressee's name consisting of more than one word is analysed on the tectogrammatical level according to the basic rules of annotation, with particular reference to the instructions for the annotation of proper names and titles (see Section 8.1, "Basic rules for the annotation of identifying expressions"; cf. for example: Fig. 8.221 and Fig. 8.222).

the effective root node of the address, and possibly the nodes for telephone, fax and email, is (are) dependent on the effective root node of the addressee's name (these nodes are sisters) (see below). All these nodes have the functor RSTR (cf. for example: Fig. 8.221 and Fig. 8.222). If an address contains additional telephone/fax numbers or email addresses, these items are represented as a paratactic structure (cf. for example: Fig. 8.223).

the effective root of an address is selected according to the position in the following hierarchy (the highest one is the root):

The nodes for all other (subsidiary) items in the address are daughter nodes of the effective address node. They are also dependent on each other according to the position in the hierarchy and they always have the functor RSTR (thus for example: The node for the town or city name is dependent on the node for the name of the state (country); the node for the street name is dependent on the node for the town or city name). Rules for representing the names of towns or cities, streets etc. see Section 8, "Identifying expressions".

nodes for house numbers are dependent, with the functor RSTR, on the effective root of the street name. Nodes for postcodes are dependent, with the functor RSTR, on the effective root node of the town or city name (municipality). Similarly (with the functor RSTR) the nodes representing the numbers of the storeys and postboxes, telephone numbers and faxes are dependent on the respective governing nodes. Complex numbers (of telephones, faxes, postcodes) are recorded as one node (see also Section 3.1, "Multi-word t-lemma").

If the addressee's name does not figure as the main component of the address but is positioned elsewhere in its hierarchy, e.g. at the end or before the telephone or fax number, it is inserted in the tectogrammatical tree in this position (cf. for example: Fig. 8.223).

if before the name of the addressee a word such as contact, address, representative etc. appears, this construction is analysed as a verb clause and the appropriate punctuation mark (usually a colon) is represented as the effective root of the verbal clause with the functor PRED (cf. for example: Fig. 8.222).