In a very general way, and with innumerable varieties of application, to connects transitive verbs with their remoter or indirect object, and adjectives, nouns, and neuter or passive verbs with a following noun which limits their action
land is usually a publicly owned structure, such as a curb sidewalk, street or sewer
check if an active arc can have its dot advanced Let the active arc be ARCx: C -> C[1] C[j] C[j+1] C[n] from m to n If there is a constituent of type C[j] from n to p, then the dot can be advanced The resulting new active arc will be: ARCy: C -> C[1] C[j+1] C[j+2] C[n] from m to n where y is a natural number that has not yet been used in an arc-name