ed with an Annotation or AnnotationSet instead of <code>start</code> and <code>end</code>
(see gatenlp._utils.support_annotation_or_set)</p>
<h2 id="args">Args</h2>
<dl>
<dt><strong><code>start</code></strong></dt>
<dd>start offset of the span</dd>
<dt><strong><code>end</code></strong></dt>
<dd>end offset of the span</dd>
<dt><strong><code>immediately</code></strong></dt>
<dd>if true checks if this annotation starts immediately after the other one (Default value = False)</dd>
</dl>
<h2 id="returns">Returns<