Asia Bible Society GNT Syntax Trees @ biblicalhumanities.org

[Jonathan Robie]

The Asia Bible Society Greek New Testament Syntax Trees for the SBLGNT are now available on github:

https://github.com/biblicalhumanities/g ... -testament

They are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution/Sharealike license.

Syntax diagram markup copyright 2013 by the Asia Bible Society, made available under under a [CC-BY-SA License] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Morphological parsing and lemmatization copyright 2013 by MorphGNT, made available under a [CC-BY-SA License](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

SBLGNT text copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, use subject to the [SBLGNT EULA] (http://sblgnt.com/license/).

[Devenios Doulenios]

χαιρε ω φιλε Ιωναθανε,

τι software δει?

Ερρωσο,

Δεβἐνιος

[Jonathan Robie]

This is pure data for the syntax trees. Some things you could do with it:

* Creating syntax diagrams with SVG or other graphic software
* Queries based on syntactic relations
* Comparing writing styles of authors

We are hoping that software folks will grab this data and use it, and I may be creating a query interface of my own. But for now, it's just data.

[Jonathan Robie]

I've been playing with XSLT transforms on the Asia Bible Society syntax diagrams. Here is the first sentence of Ephesians in a graph rendered by Miles Shang's syntax tree generator:

ephesians11.png (46.02 KiB) Viewed 6271 times

Open the diagram in a new tab if it is not showing completely.

[Jonathan Robie]

Several syntax tree diagram generators use the same text-based format for input, and it's pretty suitable for use on B-Greek. Here is the same syntax tree in text format:

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[S 
  [CL 
    [S 
      [np 
        [np 
          [noun Παῦλος]
        ]
        [np 
          [np 
            [np 
              [noun ἀπόστολος]
            ]
            [np 
              [np 
                [noun Χριστοῦ]
              ]
              [np 
                [noun Ἰησοῦ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
          [pp 
            [prep διὰ]
            [np 
              [np 
                [noun θελήματος]
              ]
              [np 
                [noun θεοῦ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
        ]
      ]
    ]
    [IO 
      [np 
        [det τοῖς]
        [np 
          [np 
            [np 
              [adjp 
                [adj ἁγίοις]
              ]
            ]
            [np 
              [det τοῖς]
              [CL 
                [VC 
                  [vp 
                    [verb οὖσιν]
                  ]
                ]
                [P 
                  [pp 
                    [prep ἐν]
                    [np 
                      [noun Ἐφέσῳ]
                    ]
                  ]
                ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
          [conj καὶ]
          [np 
            [np 
              [adjp 
                [adj πιστοῖς]
              ]
            ]
            [pp 
              [prep ἐν]
              [np 
                [np 
                  [noun Χριστῷ]
                ]
                [np 
                  [noun Ἰησοῦ]
                ]
              ]
            ]
          ]
        ]
      ]
    ]
  ]
]

I can easily generate that for any sentence in the GNT using the Asia Bible Society data, and it can be pasted into a syntax tree generator to produce the graphic version from the previous post.

[Laisvunas]

Hi Johnathan,

I downloaded syntax tree files, but have no idea how to render them as pictures.

What software should be used for this?

[Jonathan Robie]

Right now, it's just data, but I will figure out a good way to render the pictures and make them available as well. Watch this space.

[Jonathan Robie]

Suppose I could create a character-based vertical display like this:

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S ─ CL ┌ S  ─ np ┌ np  ─ noun ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────── Παῦλος
       │         └ np  ┌ np  ┌ np  ─ noun ───────────────────────────────────────────── ἀπόστολος
       │               │     └ np  ┌ np  ─ noun ─────────────────────────────────────── Χριστοῦ
       │               │           └ np  ─ noun ─────────────────────────────────────── Ἱησοῦ
       │               └ pp  ┌ prep ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── διά
       │                     └ np  ┌ np  ────────────────────────────────────────────── θελήματος
       │                           └ np  ────────────────────────────────────────────── θεοῦ
       └ IO ─ np ┌ det ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── τοῖς
                 └ np  ┌ np  ┌  np ── adjp ── adj ───────────────────────────────────── ἁγίοις
                       │     └  np  ┌ det ───────────────────────────────────────────── τοῖς
                       │            └ CL ┌  VC ── vp ── verb ─────────────────────────  οὖσιν
                       │                 └  P   ── pp ┌ prep ─────────────────────────  ἐν
                       │                              └ np ── noun ───────────────────  Ἐφέσῳ
                       ├ conj ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────  καὶ
                       └ IO  ┌  np ── adjp ─ adj  ───────────────────────────────────── πιστοῖς
                             └  pp ┌ prep  ──────────────────────────────────────────── ἐν
                                   └ np  ┌ np  ─ noun ───────────────────────────────── Χριστῷ
                                         └ np  ─ noun ───────────────────────────────── Ἱησοῦ

Is that user-friendly and useful?

[Laisvunas]

Hi Jonathan,

Such vertical display is much better than trying to read XML code.

I found that similar has been done in Logos and Accordance Bible software packages:

http://www.accordancebible.com/store/de ... T-T.syntax

http://community.logos.com/forums/p/31585/234843.aspx

Playing with this software may suggest some insights how the display of syntax trees might be done the best way.

[Stephen Carlson]

Is that user-friendly and useful?

Yes, it looks very nice and clear.