How to find pronoun / antecedent gender disagreement in Logos?

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Is
it possible to search all places, either in Hebrew or Greek, where the pronoun
disagrees in gender with its antecedent? Is it also possible to display the findings in the original language and the English translation?

Example: The Greek noun pneuma, which is neuter, will at times take a
masculine pronoun…

Example: In Psalm 119:111, the English word testimonies (KJV), which is a
feminine noun in Hebrew, is followed by the masculine pronoun they
in English.

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Graham Criddle

Hi Mike - and welcome to the forums.

Finding where the gender of one words disagrees with another can be done using Syntax searches (http://wiki.logos.com/Setting_up_a_Syntax_Search)

Within a syntax search it is possible to set conditions so that the gender of one word does not match the gender of another (these are done using "Agreement Rules" as in the example below)

However, what I do not know how to do is to define relationships between Word1 and Word2 so that one is the antecedent of the other. As an example take John 15:26 referring to πνεῦμα as shown in the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament.

πνεῦμα (shown in red) is neuter as is ὃ (also shown in red). However, ἐκεῖνος (shown in green), which is also a pronoun relating to the Spirit, is masculine. So you would want a match against ἐκεῖνος but not against ὃ. I am not aware of any tagging which allows this (though agree it would be useful).

It is further complicated (in this example) by the presence of ἀληθείας (shown in green) which is a feminine noun. Without any mechanism to show which nouns relate to which pronouns you could easily end up with ὃ and ἀληθείας matching your rule which is clearly not what you want.

So I think some of the rules matching capabilities are there but don't know of any way to specify antecedence. Hopefully someone else might!

Graham