# Natural Language Toolkit: Verbnet Corpus Reader # # Copyright (C) 2001-2019 NLTK Project # Author: Edward Loper # URL: # 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']+>|' r'' ) """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 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)