This chapter deals with the rules concerning the structure of a tectogrammatical tree, i.e. the way in which different types of syntactic constructions (parataxis, parenthesis, idiomatic expressions, ellipsis etc.) are represented by means of nodes and edges. The main features that determine the structure of a tectogrammatical tree are:
dependency (see Section 1, "Dependency"),
valency (see Section 2, "Valency"),
deep structure word order (see Section 3, "Deep structure word order").