Rhetorical Structure Theory

Rhetorical Structure Theory (RST) is basically a relation pattern between two part of a sentence. The main part or clause is known as Nucleus and the secondary part or clause is known as Satellite . now RST defines some relations between satellite and nucleus .

There are four points to remember :

1> Relations

2> Schema

3> Schema Application

4> Structures


Relation definition consists of four fields :

1> Constraints on the nucleus

2> Constraints on the satellite

3> Constraints on the both satellite and nucleus

4> The Effect


some relations are circumstance , contrast , joint , motivation , enablement , sequence etc ...