Verbum Tip 4am: Bible Browser: Grammatical Constructions

MJ. Smith

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Facet: Greek Grammatical constructions

Grammatical constructions are patterns sufficiently complex as to be difficult to find through the standard morphology or syntax searches.

Dataset

• DB:SD-GREEK-CONSTRUCTIONS GREEK-CONSTRUCTIONS.lbssd

Documentation

• Parks, James. 2015. Greek Grammatical Constructions Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

Data

The constructions included are:

• Accusative absolute
• Apodosis
• Articular infinitives
• Asyndeton (clause level)
• Attraction
• Colwell’s rule
• Conditional statement
  • First class
  • Second class
  • Third class
  • Fourth class
• Connection
  
  Clause level
• Phrase level

Crasis
Dative absolute
Elision
Emphatic negation
Enclitic
Genitive absolute
Granville Sharp’s first rule
Historical present
Incorporation
Prepositional phrase
Protasis

New data provided by the label

<GramCon value>, {Section <GramCon value>}

Filters
none
Vocabulary cards
none
Bible Browser
The following facets were used to generate the example:

Grammatical Constructions à Greek à Apodosis
Bible Books à Author à James (brother of Jesus)


Faithlife Assistant
No active commands
Interactive
none
Information Panel
The information panel shows the standard information for a datatype.

Context Menu
The Context Menu has the standard copy reference and initiate search function. Here there is a Look up option which will open the documentation to the appropriate entry.

Search
Initiating a Bible search from the Context Menu generates this search argument: {Section <GrammaticalConstructions = Apodosis>}. This produces:

Facet: Hebrew Grammatical constructions
Dataset

DB:SD-HEBREW-CONSTRUCTIONS HEBREW-CONSTRUCTIONS.lbssd

Documentation

Parks, James. 2015. Hebrew Grammatical Constructions Documentation. Bellingham, WA: Faithlife.

Data
The data presented includes:

Discourse marker

Discourse marker wayehi
Discourse marker wehayah


Immediate significance marker

Immediate significance marker hen
Immediate significance marker hinneh
Immediate significance marker we’attah


Inference marker lakhen
Prepositional phrase
Root pairs
Tripartite nominal clauses
Verbless clauses
Weak verbs

I nun verbs
I yod verbs
II guttural verbs
III alef verbs
III guttural verbs
III he verbs
Germinate verbs
Hollow verbs (waw)
Hollow verbs (yod)



 New data provided by the label

<GramCon value>, {Section <GramCon value>} i.e., the same datatype as the Greek Grammatical Constructions.

Note: GramCon is equivalent to GrammaticalConstructions
Filters
none
Vocabulary cards
none
Bible Browser
The example is built from these facet selections:

Grammatical constructions à Hebrew à Root pairs
Bible books à Author à Jeremiah


Faithlife Assistant
None implemented
Interactive
none
Information Panel
The Information Panel shows the expected datatype entries:

Context Menu
The Context Menu has the usual copy reference and initiate search functions as well as a look up of the construction in the documentation.

Search
Initiating the Bible search from the Context Menu generates this search argument, {Section <GrammaticalConstructions = Root Pairs>}, which produces the following results: