The claw-shaped overlapping structure is one of the complex structures in news texts,which refers to the simultaneous reporting of three core events and the possession of three sets of structural elements in a news report.In terms of morphology,it presents the state where the structural elements are shared(overlapped)in the lead part and separated in the main part.Taking sports news and financial news as research objects,and on the ba-sis of text analysis,this paper uses inductive research methods to describe and analyze the basic types(simple and complex),external composition methods(bonding and stranded),and internal semantic relationship(total score,cause and effect)of this structure.In conclusion,the main causes are explained in order to provide reference for the development of Chinese discourse grammar and intelligent writing system for news reports.