But why cloud?

Once upon a time I was having problems with trees. I decided I prefer construction cloud instead of them. Here's why.

Like the syntactic groups grammar, construction cloud accommodates phrase structure and dependency grammars. A construction relating 2 words can be thought of as a dependency relation between them, with the rare exception that this 'dependency' can participate in another construction, as with Prepositional and Genitive from the example.

Construction cloud also doesn't object to discontinuous constructions. If the parser managed to build it from the text, then it's acceptable.

Unlike the phrase structure, dependency and categorial grammars, it's possible for a construction to have more than one parent. This allows overlapping of various kinds, including, for example, having separate constructions for syntactic agreement, semantic relatedness and prosodical cues to information structure.

From the programmer's perspective, it's much easier to maintain the list of attachable constructions during the parsing process. They are not buried deep inside the tree anymore, but stored together in a flat list. Being immutable, they are easy to cache for future reparse. Rollback in case of reanalysis is also simple: just look at the constructions ending before the reparse point to restore the context. Finally, nobody prevents you from having constructions from several parse variants in the same cloud simultaneously.

Isn't it convincing?