I have been toying with a program I have written in Visual C++
(Microsoft's environment for Windows) that parses Greek words based on
rules (rather than a dictionary) it's pretty neat but very unfinished.
I plan to finish it but later. I really need a sentence diagramming
tool for New Testament Greek, then I could study the Greek at a much
greater pace. It is very difficult to diagram using pencil and paper as
the diagram is in a constant state of flux and it's final size and
breadth is hard to predict. The way I approached this problem during
school was to use Microsoft Word (taking advantage of the line drawing
tools and such) but I spent 80% of my time fighting Microsoft Word
because it is not designed for this purpose and the other 20% of my time
I spent actually learning Greek.
What I would like to do is be able to cut and paste the Greek Text from
Logos Bible Software (or any electronic form of the text) and plop the
words down on the "Window". Then drag and drop words onto each other in
which case I would be prompted to determine the relationship, i.e.,
subject/verb - direct object, adjective, genitive absolute and so on.
This would automatically and interactively produce a very attractive
sentence diagram and could be printed and used as my personal
commentary.
1) Does anyone out there agree with me that Sentence Diagramming is
useful when studying the text?
2) Does anyone have C++ programming experience that would be willing to
help?
I would make this tool public domain (freeware).
Mike Griffin