Compound PP
With little appetite in Europe for a further wave of sanctions on Russia, and Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, raising the prospect of a popular uprising in Germany this autumn over gas prices, Ukraine and its allies are focused on tightening the existing panoply of sanctions rather than putting forward more radical proposals.
The Guardian.
I parse the adjunct With little appetite in Europe for a further wave of sanctions on Russia, and Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, raising the prospect of a popular uprising in Germany this autumn over gas prices as a compound prepositional phrase in which the conjunction and is followed by the implied preposition with (i.e., ...and [with] Annalena Baerbock... raising the prospect...].
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[ With little appetite in Europe for a further wave of sanctions on Russia ], and Annalena Baerbock , the German foreign minister, raising the prospect of a popular uprising in Germany this autumn over gas prices ] , Ukraine and its allies are focused on tightening the existing panoply of sanctions rather than putting forward more radical proposals. It's not a coordination of PPs, but a single PP (bracketed) containing a coordination of complements (underlined) of the single preposition "with".
- [ With little appetite in Europe for a further wave of sanctions on Russia ], and Annalena Baerbock , the German foreign minister, raising the prospect of a popular uprising in Germany this autumn over gas prices ] , Ukraine and its allies are focused on tightening the existing panoply of sanctions rather than putting forward more radical proposals.
- It's not a coordination of PPs, but a single PP (bracketed) containing a coordination of complements (underlined) of the single preposition "with".
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[With little appetite in Europe for a further wave of sanctions on Russia], and Annalena Baerbock, the German foreign minister, raising the prospect of a popular uprising in Germany this autumn over gas prices], Ukraine and its allies are focused on tightening the existing panoply of sanctions rather than putting forward more radical proposals.
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