Likely some parts of this diagram will immediately make good sense to you; other parts may seem intimidating. The diagrams will include supporting explanation of the various diagramming symbols. Of course a working knowledge of basic grammar is required as a starting point, but expertise is not required to get started. Your understanding will undoubtedly grow with use of the diagrams over time.

It is natural to wish for a set of diagrams that provide for viewing in either Greek or English. Indeed, at least one interlinear set of diagrams has been created by Gerhard Raske. Raske's diagramming, in my opinion, lacks in quality, and I do not find it currently available for sale. Perhaps others have produced works of which I am unaware.

Logos software provides the basic functionality necessary to produce a new set of interlinear diagrams, including the ability to display the Greek and English in various combinations. The palette of symbols available in Logos, though, is insufficient to provide for time-efficient drawing of a large body of diagrams. Also, the proprietary system by which diagram documents are managed within the program raises questions in my mind about how well thousands of pages of diagrams can be managed. Also unclear is the viability of outputting such a large body of Logos diagrams suitably for forms of publication outside Logos. If I could gain confidence regarding file management and viable output options, then the question would come down to a matter of the time required to produce the diagrams. My experiments to date have left me with a strong hunch that, without significant improvements to Logos's diagrammer functionality, the time required to draw diagrams for the whole NT would probably be at least 5,000 hours. At a modest rate of pay necessary to support oneself on a self-employed basis (think Self-Employment Tax!), we are talking about a cost in the neighborhood of $100,000 to get these diagrams drawn. Breaking the job down into small parts to be assigned to a large team of individuals who might work as volunteers introduces new kinds of problems that would almost certainly degrade the overall quality and consistency of the finished product.

I should mention, too, that the Logos diagrammer does NOT seem to provide interactive functionality with the Greek or English text, to display parsing information or lexicon entries. So those who dream of a Logos version of these diagrams with that functionality should realize that their dream would require a considerable programming commitment on Logos's part in addition to the cost of getting the diagrams drawn. All it takes is money, of course, but whether Logos will see the potential for adequate payback of an investment that size is a question that I am not in a position to judge.

I'm able to do what I am doing with these large sets of diagrams because BibleWorks provides a software infrastructure for managing and accessing the files with great efficiency, and I'm not aware of similar virtues available in any other packages—though I don't own Accordance and therefore have not checked out its capabilities. And since the BibleWorks diagrammer is certainly the only environment within which I can deploy existing diagramming structures for various forms of revision to generate new products, it remains at present my only option. It follows that I must also accept the limitations of the BibleWorks functionality, which include lack of interlinear presentation or toggling between languages. That said, I am certainly open to consider any other viable approach that might be identified for combining Greek and English within a single set of diagrams.

Another factor to consider is that size limitations of the screen or the printed page require efficient use of available space. Sometimes a Greek word or phrase functioning as a diagramming unit is longer than its English equivalent; sometimes the English is longer than the Greek. Having to make every diagramming symbol long enough horizontally to accommodate either language would likely entail a significant reduction in space efficiency. There is always a way around such problems, but always at some expense to the visual clarity of the diagram. The idea of dynamic resizing of diagramming symbols and text could conceivably address this issue. But dynamic resizing would open the door to a whole host of problems, and at any rate no exisiting software provides such functionality.

All of these issues are ultimately matters of cost. Apart from charitable funding, the only way to bring such resources into existence is for there to be a paying public prepared to underwrite the cost. Biblical sentence diagramming currently appeals to a rather small market niche, and the financial support that can be expected is correspondingly limited. So rather than wait for developments that might never occur, it seems best to me to proceed with available tools to provide the public with the most useful possible diagramming tools that are presently within reach to develop. If these tools prove sufficiently useful to cause a market for them to grow, then perhaps they can be improved in their usefulness over time as funding becomes available.