gf-wordnet 0.0.4

An API to the GF WordNet.

The library is supposed to be used by embedding the GF WordNet grammar in the module wordnet. For example:

import pgf

gr=pgf.readNGF("Parse.ngf")
gr.embed("wordnet")

will make the raw abstract syntax available from the module wordnet. For example:

> import wordnet as w
> print(w.MassNP(w.AdjCN(w.PositA(w.red_1_A),w.UseN(w.apple_1_N))))
MassNP (AdjCN (PositA red_1_A) (UseN apple_1_N))

Note that the wordnet module is quite big which makes imports like:

from wordnet import *

quite slow. It is better to use qualified imports and give the module a short alias, like w in the above example.

The real benefit is that by using this library you can even use the RGL API directly from Python. For example:

import wordnet as w
from wordnet.api import *

print(mkNP(mkCN(w.red_1_A,w.apple_1_N)))

will print the same abstract syntax tree as in the original example.