Searching for grammatical feature within a quotation

I know I can find quotations where a certain person is a speaker. For example:

{Speaker <Person Jesus>}

I want to search for a certain word or morphology within the quotation itself? I want to limit the search to the contents of the quotation rather than the verse as a whole.

The way I am doing this is as follows. Suppose I want to find where Jesus uses the future tense of a Greek verb. I would do a Morph search for:

@{Speaker <Person Jesus>} INTERSECT @VF

Is this the best way to do this or are there hidden traps in this type of search?

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Graham Criddle

@{Speaker <Person Jesus>} INTERSECT @VF

Is this the best way to do this or are there hidden traps in this type of search?

I think this should work fine - an alternative way of specifying this is @VF WITHIN {Speaker <Person Jesus>}

It's not an issue with a Morph search but if you were using this type of construct to search for a phrase - and the phrase was partly included in the quotation and partly not, then the INTERSECT search would return a result whereas the WITHIN one would not.

Dave Hooton

@{Speaker <Person Jesus>} INTERSECT @VF

Is this the best way to do this or are there hidden traps in this type of search?

The only hidden trap is that INTERSECT is strictly INTERSECTS.

Otherwise it does nor clash as there are no strict proximity operators.

NOTE: if you specify multiple morphlogy codes, use @VF OR @VI instead of @VF, @VI

But the clever way is @V[FI] when you use the morphology drop-down.