L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #307 Syntactic force

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post:  Bug: Bible Browser results incomplete - Logos Forums

If you don't know what syntactic force is read What does ‘syntactic force’ mean? – NT Discourse

The dataset error behind this bug report has been fixed but there are some reservations to remember about using 

Bradley Grainger (Logos) said:

The Lexham SGNT Syntactic Force dataset (in Bible Browser) was automatically extracted from the analysis performed by Dr Lukaszewski in The Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament, published in 2010.

It represents that particular scholar's analysis of the text, so Faithlife will not be correcting any problems or omissions. (If we ever work with him again to produce a second edition (which is probably unlikely), it might be corrected then.)

Rick Brannan (Logos) said:

The very nature of this dataset is subjective; each passage should be read as the editor's opinion of the analysis of the passage. It should be treated more like a commentary, less like an objective and comprehensive application of tags representing grammatical phenomena; and that's pretty much how I've described it publicly since this data was originally published.