Can phrase queries be nested the same way boolean queries can be nested?

I want a user query to be translated into a boolean query (say, x AND (y OR z)), and I want those terms to be within a certain distance of each other (approximately within the same sentence, so the slop would be about 7). I then want to find documents where that phrase is within a certain distance of another term (in this case an image name). So in pseudo code I would have something like

PhraseQuery query1
Set slop to 7

PhraseQuery query2
Set slop to 50

Add boolean terms to query1
Add query1 and imageName to query2

Search

I think I could break down my initial boolean query and turn query1 into two phrase queries which are OR'ed together (so have query1a with "x AND y" with slop 7, and query1b with "x AND z" and slop 7, both added to a BooleanQuery) but I still need to combine that query with the image name in query2.

Thanks for the help.

Mike D

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