Why does this search argument fail?

(NOT section:sentence:"Declarative Sentence") AND (NOT section:sentence:"Interrogative Sentence") AND (NOT section:sentence:"Imperative Sentence") gets an error message between the opening ( and NOT. I am trying to see what allowance FaithLife has made for exclamatory sentences and sentence fragments by finding any text not covered by the three sentence types.

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Graham Criddle

I don't believe you can start a search (or part of a search) with the NOT operator.

In that sense, it's less of a general negator but an exclusion from an already determined set of results.

Justin Gatlin

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236025#Comment_1236025

* NOT (section:sentence:"Imperative Sentence" OR section:sentence:"Interrogative Sentence" OR section:sentence:"Declarative Sentence") is processed, but shows no results on John 1. It does not seem feasible to run this search on bigger chunks of Scripture since it is very slow.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236030#Comment_1236030

* NOT (section:sentence:"Imperative Sentence" OR section:sentence:"Interrogative Sentence" OR section:sentence:"Declarative Sentence")

I'm not sure it will provide the results you expect.

* NOT IN (sentence:"Imperative Sentence" OR sentence:"Interrogative Sentence" OR sentence:"Declarative Sentence") gave 4 words in SBLGNT that were not tagged as a sentence.

Not too sure about LHB results: 15363 in 10293 verses. They appear to be highlighted in the bible when you query the 3x sentence types and ESV only shows gaps for inserted words.

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1236043#Comment_1236043

Not too sure about LHB results: 15363 in 10293 verses. They appear to be highlighted in the bible when you query the 3x sentence types and ESV only shows gaps for inserted words.

* NOT (section:sentence:"Imperative Sentence" OR section:sentence:"Interrogative Sentence" OR section:sentence:"Declarative Sentence")

I'm not sure it will provide the results you expect.

I tried it with LHB (slightly modified):

* NOT term:(sentence:"Imperative Sentence" OR sentence:"Interrogative Sentence" OR sentence:"Declarative Sentence")

and it returned zero results. This may confirm MJ's hypothesis as omitting a sentence type will return results.

The term: ensures all results have the same highlight colour.and section: is not needed in bibles (and shortens the query!).