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Tip 28: Factbook Biblical Person: Clause search grammatical/syntactic roles
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Clause searches require one of these Bibles be searched:
- The Lexham Hebrew Bible. 2012. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
- Swete, Henry Barclay. 1909. The Old Testament in Greek: According to the Septuagint. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Holmes, Michael W. 2011–2013. The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Lexham Press; Society of Biblical Literature.
These Bibles are not searched directly. Rather, there a related data sets which support the search:
- Lexham Clauses Dataset: LHB Edition
- Lexham Clauses Dataset: SBLGNT Edition
- Lexham Clauses Dataset: LXX Deuterocanon
- Clauses Database: Septuagint Deuterocanon/Apocrypha, H.B. Swete Edition[1]
The dataset documentation, Husser, Lydia. 2017. Hebrew and Greek Clauses: Dataset Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife., identifies the data:
[quote]The Hebrew and Greek Clause Datasets include the following data. Some information may not apply to every clause:
• Reference: The location of the clause in the Bible.
• Clause: Defines the contents of the clause.
• Verb Lemma: The dictionary form of the Greek or Hebrew verb.
• Verb Morph: Morphological features of the Greek or Hebrew verb. For example, “VAAI3S” is verb, aorist, active, indicative, third person, singular.
• Polarity: The clause polarity is Negative if the main verb is negated (for example, Lev 25:37 “You shall not give money for interest”). Otherwise, polarity is Positive.
• Verb: Translation of the Greek or Hebrew Verb Lemma.
• Subject: If available, this is the Bible Knowledgebase entry for the subject of the clause. This links to a Factbook page.
• Subject Translation: Translation of the Greek or Hebrew subject.
• Subject Text: The Greek or Hebrew text for the subject of the clause.
• Object: If available, this is the Bible Knowledgebase entry for the object of the clause. This links to a Factbook page.
• Object Translation: Translation of the Greek or Hebrew object.
• Object Text: The Greek or Hebrew text for the object of the clause.
• Object Sense: The contextual definition (sense) of the object. If available, this links to a Bible Sense Lexicon page.
• Adverbial: Represents the when, where, how, or why of a proposition. An entity in this slot indicates the noun in the adverbial phrase.
• Adverbial Translation: Translation of the Greek or Hebrew adverbial phrase.
• Adverbial Text: The Greek or Hebrew adverbial phrase.
• Adverbial Sense: The contextual definition (sense) of the adverbial. An entity in this slot links to the Bible Sense Lexicon.
• Verb Root: The Greek or Hebrew root word for the verb.
• Verb Sense: The contextual definition (sense) of the verb. An entity in this slot links to the Bible Sense Lexicon.
• Agent: Indicates who or what is doing the action.
• Patient: Indicates who or what is being acted on.
• Case Frame: Items in this slot are from the Semantic Roles and Case Frames Dataset. See Semantic Roles and Case Frames: Dataset Documentation for information.
• Translation: Translation of the Greek or Hebrew clause.[2]
Some of the training materials provide incorrect information such as “To find all references to a person. . .[3] which implies that person:Mary (mother of Jesus) and <person Mary (mother of Jesus)> should produce the same results if run against the same text. They do not: They differ by 23 occurrences in which Mary is neither subject nor object.
Using the search argument selection menu allows one to review the potential grammatical role search terms:
Unlike other searches, this tagging does not appear in the context menu or the information panel. I find no place that builds them for the user.
[1] Lydia Husser, Hebrew and Greek Clauses: Dataset Documentation (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2017).
[2] Lydia Husser, Hebrew and Greek Clauses: Dataset Documentation (Bellingham, WA: Faithlife, 2017).
[3] Morris Proctor, Logos 6: Training Manual, vol. 1 (Murfreesboro, TN: MP Seminars, 2015), 256.
