Bug: Assigning Person attribute on Context Menu

Dave Hooton

In ESV right click words "I" "a"  "the" in 1 Peter 5:1. Each instance is attributed to Person Jesus when Peter is the (obvious) subject.  In 1 Pe 5:2 the words are attributed to Yahweh.  I presume this is due to the presence of "Christ" and "God", respectively, in those verses as there is no attribution in verses 3 & 4.

I also note that the noun is sometimes not given a Person  eg "God" in 1 Pe 4:17 vs 4:16, "Jesus" in Matt 22:37 (NET).  "God" is incorrectly assigned to Person Jesus in Mark 1:1 in bibles with "the son of God"!

In general this Person attribution to articles and pronouns is misleading, inaccurate and inefficient as the verse has to be scanned. I think it should be restricted to nouns and be accurate.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

In ESV right click words "I" "a"  "the" in 1 Peter 5:1. Each instance is attributed to Person Jesus when Peter is the (obvious) subject.  In 1 Pe 5:2 the words are attributed to Yahweh.  I presume this is due to the presence of "Christ" and "God", respectively, in those verses as there is no attribution in verses 3 & 4.

Correct.

I also note that the noun is sometimes not given a Person  eg "God" in 1 Pe 4:17 vs 4:16, "Jesus" in Matt 22:37 (NET).  "God" is incorrectly assigned to Person Jesus in Mark 1:1 in bibles with "the son of God"!

I'm not sure why "God" is not tagged in 1 Pe 4:17.

For Mt 22:37, the context menu will not show a person's name when that name is supplied by the translator (and there is just a relative pronoun in the underlying text). This is because our data that disambiguates common names (e.g., "Mary" or "Simon") has only been applied to the proper nouns (in the original text) and not pronouns. (In this case, the context menu could probably guess that "Jesus" means "Jesus Christ" with 100% accuracy, but it's not currently programmed to do so.)

In general this Person attribution to articles and pronouns is misleading, inaccurate and inefficient as the verse has to be scanned. I think it should be restricted to nouns and be accurate.

We have a project underway to improve the accuracy and efficiency of this section of the context menu, but it's not likely to ship as part of version 4.3.