Welcome to bhsa Discussions!

[dirkroorda]

👋 Welcome!

We’re using Discussions as a place to reflect on the particulars of the linguistic annotations to the Hebrew Bible.

Have a look around in the README of this repo and in the feature documentation, for example the otype page where you see the textual objects that are defined in the BHSA.

[MichoelR]

Hi! This is a wonderful resource. Tell me, please: The "word" otype here means a single syntactic atom. Is there a way to use BigTables as listed, but also to have information on whole Hebrew words?
For instance, the first word is B Reishit ("in the beginning") stored as two rows. Same with Ha Shamayim ("the heavens") later in the verse, stored as two rows. Is there a way to know that they are linked in one word?
Thank you!

[MartijnNaaijer]

Hi. The feature "trailer" indicates what there is at the end of a word, before the next word. So, B has the value "" (empty string), Reishit has " " (space).

[MartijnNaaijer]

For the feature docs, see https://etcbc.github.io/bhsa.

[MichoelR]

OMG. I couldn't even see the space when I looked at the file in Excel. So any empty string means there's more to the word. Then there is a weird list of other possibilities, 0 (end of verse), 5 (?), & (seems to be a maqaf), P (petucha), S (setumah), 00_|_S
(whatever).
In any case, this takes care of the problem: keep adding to the word as long as trailer is empty. Thank you!

[dirkroorda]

You are getting it with the other trailers. This might also help: https://annotation.github.io/text-fabric/tf/writing/hebrew.html
Scroll down to punctuation.