SUGGESTION: Enhancement to sentence diagramming

For a number of sentence diagramming methods one must choose among a closed set of labels. A version of highlighting palettes available in the sentence diagram tool would be helpful to facilitate consistency in the application of the labels by tying the abbreviation to its definition ideally linked to the resource the method comes from. It would also be useful to be able to color code the diagram by a straightforward and connected highlighting function.

Example 1 Osborne, Grant. The Hermeneutical Spiral. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1991. See esp. 27–40.

Example 2:Schreiner, Thomas R. “Tracing the Argument.” In Interpreting the Pauline Epistles, 97–126. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1990.

Examples of These Procedures in Other Sources

  Cotterell, Peter, and Max Turner. “Sentence and Sentence Clusters.” In Linguistics and Biblical Interpretation, 188–229. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1989.
  Guthrie, G. H., and J. S. Duvall. “How to Do Semantic Diagramming.” In Biblical Greek Exegesis, 39–53. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998.
  Kaiser, Walter C. “Syntactical Analysis” and “Illustrations of Syntactical and Homiletical Analysis.” In Toward an Exegetical Theology, 165–81. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1981.
  Piper, John. Biblical Exegesis: Discovering the Original Meaning of Scripture Texts. Minneapolis: Desiring God Ministries, 1999.
  Schreiner, Thomas R. “Tracing the Argument.” In Interpreting the Pauline Epistles, 97–126. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 1990.


List from: Jeannine K. Brown, Scripture as Communication: Introducing Biblical Hermeneutics (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2007), 287–288.