Graphical query AKA I must be really thick...

AndyTheGreek

Despite having the Graphical Query tool for months I've never used it. And now I try, I can't get it to work :-(

All I want to do is find every anarthrous theon (accusative case theos without the article) in the NA27 but I can't figure it out.

I have places 2 'terms' in the query - one for theon and one for ton (both written in Greek and flagged as greek), with a proximity of exactly 1 intervening. I have also linked these two terms with a NOT boolean operator.

The result numbers in the  hundreds of thousands when it should be relatively few. Sigh...

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

Dave Hooton

Don't use the Boolean terms as there are simpler ways to accomplish what they do (I could never understand the Help description and I've never needed them!). My approach is to use the Definite Article in case ton is too specific, but it has to be related to the morphology for theon:-

The basic way to exclude the article is to tick "Exclude term" but using it in conjunction with a Filter is more precise even if it doesn't look like it is "intervening" (below).

Click Help to get more information. To see how it assists the result remove the tick for "Intervening Term"!