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# Natural Language Toolkit: Verbnet Corpus Reader
#
# Copyright (C) 2001-2019 NLTK Project
# Author: Edward Loper <edloper@gmail.com>
# URL: <http://nltk.org/>
# For license information, see LICENSE.TXT
"""
An NLTK interface to the VerbNet verb lexicon
For details about VerbNet see:
https://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/projects/verbnet.html
"""
from __future__ import unicode_literals
import re
import textwrap
from collections import defaultdict
from six import string_types
from nltk.corpus.reader.xmldocs import XMLCorpusReader
class VerbnetCorpusReader(XMLCorpusReader):
"""
An NLTK interface to the VerbNet verb lexicon.
From the VerbNet site: "VerbNet (VN) (Kipper-Schuler 2006) is the largest
on-line verb lexicon currently available for English. It is a hierarchical
domain-independent, broad-coverage verb lexicon with mappings to other
lexical resources such as WordNet (Miller, 1990; Fellbaum, 1998), XTAG
(XTAG Research Group, 2001), and FrameNet (Baker et al., 1998)."
For details about VerbNet see:
https://verbs.colorado.edu/~mpalmer/projects/verbnet.html
"""
# No unicode encoding param, since the data files are all XML.
def __init__(self, root, fileids, wrap_etree=False):
XMLCorpusReader.__init__(self, root, fileids, wrap_etree)
self._lemma_to_class = defaultdict(list)
"""A dictionary mapping from verb lemma strings to lists of
VerbNet class identifiers."""
self._wordnet_to_class = defaultdict(list)
"""A dictionary mapping from wordnet identifier strings to
lists of VerbNet class identifiers."""
self._class_to_fileid = {}
"""A dictionary mapping from class identifiers to
corresponding file identifiers. The keys of this dictionary
provide a complete list of all classes and subclasses."""
self._shortid_to_longid = {}
# Initialize the dictionaries. Use the quick (regexp-based)
# method instead of the slow (xml-based) method, because it
# runs 2-30 times faster.
self._quick_index()
_LONGID_RE = re.compile(r'([^\-\.]*)-([\d+.\-]+)$')
"""Regular expression that matches (and decomposes) longids"""
_SHORTID_RE = re.compile(r'[\d+.\-]+$')
"""Regular expression that matches shortids"""
_INDEX_RE = re.compile(
r'<MEMBER name="\??([^"]+)" wn="([^"]*)"[^>]+>|' r'<VNSUBCLASS ID="([^"]+)"/?>'
)
"""Regular expression used by ``_index()`` to quickly scan the corpus
for basic information."""
def lemmas(self, vnclass=None):
"""
Return a list of all verb lemmas that appear in any class, or
in the ``classid`` if specified.
"""
if vnclass is None:
return sorted(self._lemma_to_class.keys())
else:
# [xx] should this include subclass members?
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
return [member.get('name') for member in vnclass.findall('MEMBERS/MEMBER')]
def wordnetids(self, vnclass=None):
"""
Return a list of all wordnet identifiers that appear in any
class, or in ``classid`` if specified.
"""
if vnclass is None:
return sorted(self._wordnet_to_class.keys())
else:
# [xx] should this include subclass members?
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
return sum(
[
member.get('wn', '').split()
for member in vnclass.findall('MEMBERS/MEMBER')
],
[],
)
def classids(self, lemma=None, wordnetid=None, fileid=None, classid=None):
"""
Return a list of the VerbNet class identifiers. If a file
identifier is specified, then return only the VerbNet class
identifiers for classes (and subclasses) defined by that file.
If a lemma is specified, then return only VerbNet class
identifiers for classes that contain that lemma as a member.
If a wordnetid is specified, then return only identifiers for
classes that contain that wordnetid as a member. If a classid
is specified, then return only identifiers for subclasses of
the specified VerbNet class.
If nothing is specified, return all classids within VerbNet
"""
if fileid is not None:
return [c for (c, f) in self._class_to_fileid.items() if f == fileid]
elif lemma is not None:
return self._lemma_to_class[lemma]
elif wordnetid is not None:
return self._wordnet_to_class[wordnetid]
elif classid is not None:
xmltree = self.vnclass(classid)
return [
subclass.get('ID')
for subclass in xmltree.findall('SUBCLASSES/VNSUBCLASS')
]
else:
return sorted(self._class_to_fileid.keys())
def vnclass(self, fileid_or_classid):
"""Returns VerbNet class ElementTree
Return an ElementTree containing the xml for the specified
VerbNet class.
:param fileid_or_classid: An identifier specifying which class
should be returned. Can be a file identifier (such as
``'put-9.1.xml'``), or a VerbNet class identifier (such as
``'put-9.1'``) or a short VerbNet class identifier (such as
``'9.1'``).
"""
# File identifier: just return the xml.
if fileid_or_classid in self._fileids:
return self.xml(fileid_or_classid)
# Class identifier: get the xml, and find the right elt.
classid = self.longid(fileid_or_classid)
if classid in self._class_to_fileid:
fileid = self._class_to_fileid[self.longid(classid)]
tree = self.xml(fileid)
if classid == tree.get('ID'):
return tree
else:
for subclass in tree.findall('.//VNSUBCLASS'):
if classid == subclass.get('ID'):
return subclass
else:
assert False # we saw it during _index()!
else:
raise ValueError('Unknown identifier {}'.format(fileid_or_classid))
def fileids(self, vnclass_ids=None):
"""
Return a list of fileids that make up this corpus. If
``vnclass_ids`` is specified, then return the fileids that make
up the specified VerbNet class(es).
"""
if vnclass_ids is None:
return self._fileids
elif isinstance(vnclass_ids, string_types):
return [self._class_to_fileid[self.longid(vnclass_ids)]]
else:
return [
self._class_to_fileid[self.longid(vnclass_id)]
for vnclass_id in vnclass_ids
]
def frames(self, vnclass):
"""Given a VerbNet class, this method returns VerbNet frames
The members returned are:
1) Example
2) Description
3) Syntax
4) Semantics
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
:return: frames - a list of frame dictionaries
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
frames = []
vnframes = vnclass.findall('FRAMES/FRAME')
for vnframe in vnframes:
frames.append(
{
'example': self._get_example_within_frame(vnframe),
'description': self._get_description_within_frame(vnframe),
'syntax': self._get_syntactic_list_within_frame(vnframe),
'semantics': self._get_semantics_within_frame(vnframe),
}
)
return frames
def subclasses(self, vnclass):
"""Returns subclass ids, if any exist
Given a VerbNet class, this method returns subclass ids (if they exist)
in a list of strings.
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
:return: list of subclasses
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
subclasses = [
subclass.get('ID') for subclass in vnclass.findall('SUBCLASSES/VNSUBCLASS')
]
return subclasses
def themroles(self, vnclass):
"""Returns thematic roles participating in a VerbNet class
Members returned as part of roles are-
1) Type
2) Modifiers
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
:return: themroles: A list of thematic roles in the VerbNet class
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
themroles = []
for trole in vnclass.findall('THEMROLES/THEMROLE'):
themroles.append(
{
'type': trole.get('type'),
'modifiers': [
{'value': restr.get('Value'), 'type': restr.get('type')}
for restr in trole.findall('SELRESTRS/SELRESTR')
],
}
)
return themroles
######################################################################
# { Index Initialization
######################################################################
def _index(self):
"""
Initialize the indexes ``_lemma_to_class``,
``_wordnet_to_class``, and ``_class_to_fileid`` by scanning
through the corpus fileids. This is fast with cElementTree
(<0.1 secs), but quite slow (>10 secs) with the python
implementation of ElementTree.
"""
for fileid in self._fileids:
self._index_helper(self.xml(fileid), fileid)
def _index_helper(self, xmltree, fileid):
"""Helper for ``_index()``"""
vnclass = xmltree.get('ID')
self._class_to_fileid[vnclass] = fileid
self._shortid_to_longid[self.shortid(vnclass)] = vnclass
for member in xmltree.findall('MEMBERS/MEMBER'):
self._lemma_to_class[member.get('name')].append(vnclass)
for wn in member.get('wn', '').split():
self._wordnet_to_class[wn].append(vnclass)
for subclass in xmltree.findall('SUBCLASSES/VNSUBCLASS'):
self._index_helper(subclass, fileid)
def _quick_index(self):
"""
Initialize the indexes ``_lemma_to_class``,
``_wordnet_to_class``, and ``_class_to_fileid`` by scanning
through the corpus fileids. This doesn't do proper xml parsing,
but is good enough to find everything in the standard VerbNet
corpus -- and it runs about 30 times faster than xml parsing
(with the python ElementTree; only 2-3 times faster with
cElementTree).
"""
# nb: if we got rid of wordnet_to_class, this would run 2-3
# times faster.
for fileid in self._fileids:
vnclass = fileid[:-4] # strip the '.xml'
self._class_to_fileid[vnclass] = fileid
self._shortid_to_longid[self.shortid(vnclass)] = vnclass
for m in self._INDEX_RE.finditer(self.open(fileid).read()):
groups = m.groups()
if groups[0] is not None:
self._lemma_to_class[groups[0]].append(vnclass)
for wn in groups[1].split():
self._wordnet_to_class[wn].append(vnclass)
elif groups[2] is not None:
self._class_to_fileid[groups[2]] = fileid
vnclass = groups[2] # for <MEMBER> elts.
self._shortid_to_longid[self.shortid(vnclass)] = vnclass
else:
assert False, 'unexpected match condition'
######################################################################
# { Identifier conversion
######################################################################
def longid(self, shortid):
"""Returns longid of a VerbNet class
Given a short VerbNet class identifier (eg '37.10'), map it
to a long id (eg 'confess-37.10'). If ``shortid`` is already a
long id, then return it as-is"""
if self._LONGID_RE.match(shortid):
return shortid # it's already a longid.
elif not self._SHORTID_RE.match(shortid):
raise ValueError('vnclass identifier %r not found' % shortid)
try:
return self._shortid_to_longid[shortid]
except KeyError:
raise ValueError('vnclass identifier %r not found' % shortid)
def shortid(self, longid):
"""Returns shortid of a VerbNet class
Given a long VerbNet class identifier (eg 'confess-37.10'),
map it to a short id (eg '37.10'). If ``longid`` is already a
short id, then return it as-is."""
if self._SHORTID_RE.match(longid):
return longid # it's already a shortid.
m = self._LONGID_RE.match(longid)
if m:
return m.group(2)
else:
raise ValueError('vnclass identifier %r not found' % longid)
######################################################################
# { Frame access utility functions
######################################################################
def _get_semantics_within_frame(self, vnframe):
"""Returns semantics within a single frame
A utility function to retrieve semantics within a frame in VerbNet
Members of the semantics dictionary:
1) Predicate value
2) Arguments
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
:return: semantics: semantics dictionary
"""
semantics_within_single_frame = []
for pred in vnframe.findall('SEMANTICS/PRED'):
arguments = [
{'type': arg.get('type'), 'value': arg.get('value')}
for arg in pred.findall('ARGS/ARG')
]
semantics_within_single_frame.append(
{'predicate_value': pred.get('value'), 'arguments': arguments}
)
return semantics_within_single_frame
def _get_example_within_frame(self, vnframe):
"""Returns example within a frame
A utility function to retrieve an example within a frame in VerbNet.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
:return: example_text: The example sentence for this particular frame
"""
example_element = vnframe.find('EXAMPLES/EXAMPLE')
if example_element is not None:
example_text = example_element.text
else:
example_text = ""
return example_text
def _get_description_within_frame(self, vnframe):
"""Returns member description within frame
A utility function to retrieve a description of participating members
within a frame in VerbNet.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
:return: description: a description dictionary with members - primary and secondary
"""
description_element = vnframe.find('DESCRIPTION')
return {
'primary': description_element.attrib['primary'],
'secondary': description_element.get('secondary', ''),
}
def _get_syntactic_list_within_frame(self, vnframe):
"""Returns semantics within a frame
A utility function to retrieve semantics within a frame in VerbNet.
Members of the syntactic dictionary:
1) POS Tag
2) Modifiers
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
:return: syntax_within_single_frame
"""
syntax_within_single_frame = []
for elt in vnframe.find('SYNTAX'):
pos_tag = elt.tag
modifiers = dict()
modifiers['value'] = elt.get('value') if 'value' in elt.attrib else ""
modifiers['selrestrs'] = [
{'value': restr.get('Value'), 'type': restr.get('type')}
for restr in elt.findall('SELRESTRS/SELRESTR')
]
modifiers['synrestrs'] = [
{'value': restr.get('Value'), 'type': restr.get('type')}
for restr in elt.findall('SYNRESTRS/SYNRESTR')
]
syntax_within_single_frame.append(
{'pos_tag': pos_tag, 'modifiers': modifiers}
)
return syntax_within_single_frame
######################################################################
# { Pretty Printing
######################################################################
def pprint(self, vnclass):
"""Returns pretty printed version of a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet class.
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
s = vnclass.get('ID') + '\n'
s += self.pprint_subclasses(vnclass, indent=' ') + '\n'
s += self.pprint_members(vnclass, indent=' ') + '\n'
s += ' Thematic roles:\n'
s += self.pprint_themroles(vnclass, indent=' ') + '\n'
s += ' Frames:\n'
s += self.pprint_frames(vnclass, indent=' ')
return s
def pprint_subclasses(self, vnclass, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of subclasses of VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet class's subclasses.
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
subclasses = self.subclasses(vnclass)
if not subclasses:
subclasses = ['(none)']
s = 'Subclasses: ' + ' '.join(subclasses)
return textwrap.fill(
s, 70, initial_indent=indent, subsequent_indent=indent + ' '
)
def pprint_members(self, vnclass, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of members in a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet class's member verbs.
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
members = self.lemmas(vnclass)
if not members:
members = ['(none)']
s = 'Members: ' + ' '.join(members)
return textwrap.fill(
s, 70, initial_indent=indent, subsequent_indent=indent + ' '
)
def pprint_themroles(self, vnclass, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of thematic roles in a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet class's thematic roles.
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
pieces = []
for themrole in self.themroles(vnclass):
piece = indent + '* ' + themrole.get('type')
modifiers = [
modifier['value'] + modifier['type']
for modifier in themrole['modifiers']
]
if modifiers:
piece += '[{}]'.format(' '.join(modifiers))
pieces.append(piece)
return '\n'.join(pieces)
def pprint_frames(self, vnclass, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty version of all frames in a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the list of frames within the VerbNet class.
:param vnclass: A VerbNet class identifier; or an ElementTree
containing the xml contents of a VerbNet class.
"""
if isinstance(vnclass, string_types):
vnclass = self.vnclass(vnclass)
pieces = []
for vnframe in self.frames(vnclass):
pieces.append(self._pprint_single_frame(vnframe, indent))
return '\n'.join(pieces)
def _pprint_single_frame(self, vnframe, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of a single frame in a VerbNet class
Returns a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given frame.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
"""
frame_string = self._pprint_description_within_frame(vnframe, indent) + '\n'
frame_string += self._pprint_example_within_frame(vnframe, indent + ' ') + '\n'
frame_string += (
self._pprint_syntax_within_frame(vnframe, indent + ' Syntax: ') + '\n'
)
frame_string += indent + ' Semantics:\n'
frame_string += self._pprint_semantics_within_frame(vnframe, indent + ' ')
return frame_string
def _pprint_example_within_frame(self, vnframe, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of example within frame in a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet frame example.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a Verbnet frame.
"""
if vnframe['example']:
return indent + ' Example: ' + vnframe['example']
def _pprint_description_within_frame(self, vnframe, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of a VerbNet frame description
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet frame description.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
"""
description = indent + vnframe['description']['primary']
if vnframe['description']['secondary']:
description += ' ({})'.format(vnframe['description']['secondary'])
return description
def _pprint_syntax_within_frame(self, vnframe, indent=''):
"""Returns pretty printed version of syntax within a frame in a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet frame syntax.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
"""
pieces = []
for element in vnframe['syntax']:
piece = element['pos_tag']
modifier_list = []
if 'value' in element['modifiers'] and element['modifiers']['value']:
modifier_list.append(element['modifiers']['value'])
modifier_list += [
'{}{}'.format(restr['value'], restr['type'])
for restr in (
element['modifiers']['selrestrs']
+ element['modifiers']['synrestrs']
)
]
if modifier_list:
piece += '[{}]'.format(' '.join(modifier_list))
pieces.append(piece)
return indent + ' '.join(pieces)
def _pprint_semantics_within_frame(self, vnframe, indent=''):
"""Returns a pretty printed version of semantics within frame in a VerbNet class
Return a string containing a pretty-printed representation of
the given VerbNet frame semantics.
:param vnframe: An ElementTree containing the xml contents of
a VerbNet frame.
"""
pieces = []
for predicate in vnframe['semantics']:
arguments = [argument['value'] for argument in predicate['arguments']]
pieces.append(
'{}({})'.format(predicate['predicate_value'], ', '.join(arguments))
)
return '\n'.join('{}* {}'.format(indent, piece) for piece in pieces)