in the following example:
John bought the book of poems that Tom told him about it last week.
so, here the CP(that Tom told......) is it a modifier to the DP(the book of poems), if so, we should consider it when we are drawing a tree as an adjunct, which means must be sister to x-bar dominated by x-bar. or as a complement, which means sister to lexical category dominated by x-bar.
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