Puzzling result of a Clause search

Harry Hahne

I am trying understand a puzzling result in a Clause search.

In 2 Thess 1:3, ἀλλήλων is found in a Clause search for subject-lemma:ἀλλήλων in the SBLGNT. 

I don't understand how it can be found in a search for the subject. This word is classified correctly as the object of the preposition εἰς in the SBLGNT. In addition, the word never occurs in the nominative, so I don't understand how it could ever be the subject.

Since the word is not tagged as subject in the SBLGNT, why is it found in a Clause search for subject-lemma?

This random discovery came out of experimenting with this Clause search in this forum discussion: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/181434/1049590.aspx#1049590. I figured that the search for subject-lemma was there to cover all of the theoretical possibilities, so I was surprised to find anything when I only searched for

Rick Brannan (Logos)

Hi Harry.

The Clause Search data is based on the SBLGNT Cascadia Syntax Graphs. In that analysis, αλληλων is part of the subject clause component.

Since the word is not tagged as subject in the SBLGNT, why is it found in a Clause search for subject-lemma?

The subject tag in the SBLGNT (and every other Greek NT and NT Reverse Interlinear) comes from a different analysis, the dataset of syntactic force annotation from the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament (SBLGNT Edition). That analysis attempts to provide the most appropriate syntactic label to each word in the Greek NT.

The Cascadia analysis works above the word level and is a head driven phrase grammar (if I remember the terms correctly); the subject clause component includes the component head term (αγαπη) and all the items that modify it (here a prepositional phrase). To search the Cascadia material for the word commonly referred to as the subject, you'd need to constrain to the head term of the structure. The "Subject (Cascadia)" template does all the heavy lifting here: