Search senses and semantic roles not in clause search
I want to find all conflicts between Egyptians and Israelites. Going to "Sense Lexicon" I found the sense "conflict (clash)". For some reason this sense is not available in the clause search. If I type "sense:conflict" in the clause search I can see only "sense:strife (conflict)" but this is not what I am looking for. So back to the "sense Lexicon" I selected the sense "conflict (clash)" and pressed "Search for sense conflict (clash)". Now the bible search opens with the parameters "<Sense conflict (clash)>" with 71 results.
Now I have two questions:
1. Why does the sense "conflict (clash)" appear i the "Sense Lexicon" but not in the clause search?
2. How Do I add the Israelites as patients? Since I am not in the clause search I can't just type patient "patient:Israelites".
Thanks!
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Mendel Itkin said:
Why does the sense "conflict (clash)" appear i the "Sense Lexicon" but not in the clause search?
My guess - I am not at my computer at the moment to check - is that that particular sense is only found in either the Old or New Testament and you are trying to run the Clause Search against the other one.
Does that make sense?
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I think this is not correct since the search "<Sense conflict (clash)>" gives me 71 in the AT, so this sense must be part of it. I tried it also with the NT the clause search doesn't know the sense "conflict (clash)".
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It is not available in the clause search as there aren't any words that directly map to that sense!
If you look under the search button you would normally expect to see a lemma section (as per the example below)
but there aren't any for the sense you are interested in
It is a "container" for subordinate senses and it is these that are matched against when running the Bible search - which, by default, searches for the sense and all subordinate ones.
So the first search result is matching "strife (conflict)" - one of the subordinate entries as shown below
It looks as though senses only appear in the Clause search if they have actual matching lemmas (I wasn't aware of this so could be wrong).
Incidentally, the clause search you ran against the Bible with 71 results doesn't seem to have any results relating to conflict between the Israelites and Egyptians so it is possibly not what you are looking for.
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Graham Criddle said:
Incidentally, the clause search you ran against the Bible with 71 results doesn't seem to have any results relating to conflict between the Israelites and Egyptians so it is possibly not what you are looking for.
This is correct since I don't know how to search for it. This is part of my question in point nr. 2. The clause search doesn't allow me to search the sense "container" and I don't know how to apply "patient:Israelites" in the bible search (not clause search).
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Can you provide an example of where you see a conflict between the two groups?
There may not be any generic encoding that covers them so I'm interested to see the sort of things you are thinking about.
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Or you could just find cases where one is the agent and the other is the patient and vice versa
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Your last search is a good idea! Thank you for your help
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