Verbum Tip 4ax: (Non)Facet: CSG Syntactic data

MJ. Smith · January 2021

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(Non)Facet: CSG syntactic data

This data is based on work by the Asian Bible Society. See Nine Kinds of Ancient Greek Treebanks (biblicalhumanities.org) to explore the variety of syntactic data and it’s representation. FYI: the Arborator is the format I create the most frequently. You should also read for historical perspective Leiden2012-Greek Linguistic Databases: Overview, Recent Work, and Future Prospects

Dataset

The datasets are all tagged as Syntax rather than Clause;

DB:SYNTAX-CSGLXXDA2016-04-15T16:16:00ZCSGLXXDA.lbssyn
DB:SYNTAX-CSGNT2016-09-28T22:00:01ZCSGNT.lbssyn
DB:SYNTAX-CSGNTSBL2013-08-23T22:29:43ZCSGNTSBL.lbssyn

Documentation

Wu, Andi, and Randall Tan. 2009. Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the New Testament. Lexham Press.
Wu, Andi, and Randall K. Tan. 2009. Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the New Testament: Glossary. Lexham Press.
Wu, Andi, and Randall Tan. 2010. Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the New Testament: SBL Edition. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
Bauserman, Charles R., Matt Nerdahl, and Jimmy Parks. 2015. Cascadia Syntax Graphs of the Septuagint Deuterocanon and Apocrypha. Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.

Data

The datatype <CSG = name> finds instances only in the glossary.

New data provided by the resource

<CSG = name>

Filters

none

Vocabulary cards

none

Bible Browser

Not implemented

Faithlife Assistant

Not implemented

Interactive

None but there is a clause visualization.

Mouse-over and click expand on all the syntactic tags.

Information Tool

Clause Visualizations appear not to work with the Information Tool.

Context Menu

When built from a high level clause element, the Context Menu shows us the expected copy, search, and look up function. The look up uses the glossary that documents this data.

The results are similar for the object function further down the hierarchy.

The same pattern applies to the terminal level of the clause analysis.

The manuscript level offers the same options but with the Look up pointing to a lexicon. What is interesting here is the presence of the direct object tag from the Lexham SGNT Syntactic Force.

The lemma level shows only the selection on the tab side. The copy and search functions are as expected. Here, using the lemma, the Look up has a full complement of five lexicons. There is also an option for a Perseus Web Lookup – an option we’ve not seen before.

Morphology is also unremarkable.

To my surprise, it is the gloss rather than the lemma which is heavily loaded with functions:

Copy and search have the expected options
Look up has a full complement of dictionaries and Bible dictionaries for a top five
Wikipedia may be invoked
A Bible Word Study may be invoked … note this is on the English not the lemma
A Topic Guide may be invoked.

Concordance

This is a labels-only function.

Search

None of the Searches generated from the syntactic tree find any results except sporadic glossary results.

However, the manuscript column generates a simple text search:

The lemma is identified in the Context Menu only as selection which results in another text search:

The morphological search is the standard Logos morphology, nothing specific to the Cascadia Syntactic data i.e. <LogosMorphGr = NAPF>

Finally, the gloss is coded only as selection which generates a simple text search.

In short, one must use the Syntax Search to take advantage of this data. While a discussion of the syntax search is a long way off, it is time to start showing very simple examples to gain some basic familiarity to the feature. Here is a simple search for a lemma as the object of a preposition.