تَأَخَّرَ الْقَائِدُ. أَغْلَقَ السَّيْلُ الطَّرِيقَ. وَالنَّاسُ يَنْتَظِرُونَ. الصَّبْرُ عِنْدَ الشِّدَّةِ حِكْمَةٌ.
The leader was delayed. A flood had blocked the road. People were waiting. Patience in hardship is wisdom.
If the delay is the issue, the second clause can answer an implied question about its cause. 'The people were waiting' can depict a concurrent circumstance. The final maxim may comment on or reinforce the situation through a general judgment. None of these analyses can be established merely by counting conjunctions.
A full reading asks at each boundary: whose action is described, what state coincides with it, what question is being answered, and what does the final generalization add? Such stepwise reasoning turns the recognition of devices into genuine rhetorical comprehension.