"Parse gloss" line in interlinearizer

Question

Where does the “parse gloss” line in the interlinearizer take its information from internally? I started trying out an adaptation using the interlinearizer with PT 9.1 and since the update to PT 9.2 changed things I think I have now managed to mostly get back to the settings I had, but I now find myself with strange information in the 3rd line as shown in the picture, which I understand is the “parse gloss” line. What can I do about this?

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Answer 1

Thanks to a reply on another thread and a link posted there, I managed to follow the instructions for changing the language code in the various different files as posted here, in my case the internal data was incorrectly set as French, but having corrected it to the vernacular language, I believe everything is back to how it should be.

A manual restore of interlinear data after migration Helps

It seems that Paratext 8 has a problem migrating interlinear glosses if you use the Interlinearizer in 7 to gloss text using the NT Greek as your model text. A user asked for help in this situation, and I saw that after migration, the language code in the lexicon.xml and in the per-book gloss files was “el” while the code for NT greek should be “grc”. (In a test project, I glossed a few words in Greek, then migrated, and in this migrated project, the code for NT Greek became “lbj”, the code for…

Answer 2

It seems I spoke too soon. Everything looked ok, but when it comes to the glossing it appears the interlinearizer is only taking into account the morphology of the stem and not the affixes. So although the affixes are correctly entered, frustratingly, they do not appear in the gloss suggestions, only the stem.

In the screenshot below, the word “gupalol” in the source language correctly has the morphology gu- pal -ol. In the target language these morphemes are correctly marked as gu- paal -ool. Despite me having accepted the morphemes in the target language as being correct, the gloss line just shows “paal”, whereas my understanding is that it should take the combination of morphemes and provide the correct result, namely “gupaalool”. This is the case for all new words that I try to parse. I have spent a long time searching in the Paratext files, but cannot work out what if anything needs changed, so would greatly appreciate help. Thank you

Comments

Hello, I had the same problem and this was what Doug Higby sent back in December which helped me fix the problem:

Your interlinear data is stored in the database and tagged with the language of the glosses. You can look in your Paratext project directory to see what language code(s) your existing interlinear has been tagging the glosses with.

Let’s say that all your glosses went missing after upgrading to 9.2 and reopening the interlinear. If you haven’t worked yet in the new blank interlinear, you will only have one directory showing here, en-US. The one with the language tag you have been using. To see your glosses again, you will need to create a new interlinear in one of two ways:

1. Create an interlinear with no model text, and select en-US as the language.
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2. Create an interlinear with a model text that is en-US. You can see the language of the model text in the Open Resource dialog:

If you have two interlinear_XYZ directories and don’t know which is the language code you have been using, just open each directory and see which one has more files, and with past dates. In the screenshot at top, the Interlinear_en folder had only one file in it that was only 500bytes in size. The other one had multiple books with larger file sizes. Clearly, en-US is the language I need to select when setting up the interlinear if I want to see my glosses back.

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If you are still having this issue, could you add the user Paratext Support as an Admin to the relevant projects and we can take a look at it?