Could someone give an example or two as to how one would use the CLAUSE SEARCH in Logos 5?
It really is a great tool. I can give you a couple of ways I have recently used Clause Search.
There is no way I could have found those using even a syntax search. I think you will find it a very useful tool.
person:Jesus person:Peter
Will give you every place that Jesus is referred to in a clause by proper name, other title (Lord), pronoun (he), etc. and where Peter is mentioned in any of the same ways.
person:Jesus subject:Peter
Will give you every place either is referred to but limited to those cases where Peter is the subject of the clause.
Lots of other examples including places and things are fairly easy to see what would happen. I haven't played around with the verbs, adverbial modifiers, etc. yet.
BTW: The 5.0a beta is testing a new function that will be seen in Analysis view: polarity (positive or negative) which can help you narrow down, say, the interactions Jesus had with Peter in which Jesus used a grammatically negative statement (John 13:8 "If I do not wash you, you have no part of me.").
EDIT: Philana gave you some good example while I was typing.
EDIT: Clarifying the note on the L5.0a beta feature
person:Jesus person:Peter Will give you every place that Jesus is referred to in the verse by proper name, other title (Lord), pronoun (he), etc. and where Peter is mentioned in any of the same ways.
Will give you every place that Jesus is referred to in the verse by proper name, other title (Lord), pronoun (he), etc. and where Peter is mentioned in any of the same ways.
Will it restrict the results to when they both occur in a single verse? Or in the same sentence? If the former, is there a way to get it to look more broadly? If the latter, I assume it goes by the sentence structure from the resource in which it's searching?
Thanks,
Donnie
Will it restrict the results to when they both occur in a single verse?
I don't know anything you don't know about how it is designed. Results are viewable only by verse or in analysis view, so my guess would be by verses not sentences. I looked through a search I did and didn't see any multi-verse single sentence examples. All were in the same verse but almost all the verses were complete sentences, so that is inconclusive.
I could be wrong, but I believe the hits must be within the same clause, usually less than a full sentence.
You are right, Jack. I doubt there are many clauses that span verses, but I'd assume the software would ignore any verse boundaries.
There are a good number of clauses that do span verses, and we handle that case.
[Y] The tool looks very helpful.
You can also use it to find where someone does something. For example, find things that Jesus said (where the verb is used)
subject:Jesus verb:to say
It catches even places where it's translated "he said"
You can also use it to find where someone does something. For example, find things that Jesus said (where the verb is used) subject:Jesus verb:to say It catches even places where it's translated "he said"
Ooh, do we finally have a way to find all the questions Jesus asked? Nah, it looks like that isn't part of the clause tagging. Next version maybe! ???
