Typed Dependency Parsing in NLTK Python

I have a sentence

"I shot an elephant in my sleep"


The typed dependency of the sentence is

nsubj(shot-2, I-1)
det(elephant-4, an-3)
dobj(shot-2, elephant-4)
prep(shot-2, in-5)
poss(sleep-7, my-6)
pobj(in-5, sleep-7)


How do I get the typed dependency using Stanford Parser (or any parser) using NLTK (preferably, but anthing is fine) in Python ?

Note - I know it is very similar to this question. But no good answers exist.

1 Answer
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There exists a python wrapper for the Stanford parser, you can get it here.

It will give you the dependency tree of your sentence.

EDIT:

I assume here that you launched a server as said here. I also assume that you have installed jsonrpclib.

The following code will produce what you want:

import json
import jsonrpclib

class StanfordNLP:
def __init__(self, port_number=8080):
self.server = jsonrpclib.Server("http://localhost:%d" % port_number)

def parse(self, text):
return json.loads(self.server.parse(text))

nlp = StanfordNLP()
sentence = 'I shot an elephant in my sleep'
result = nlp.parse(sentence)
result['sentences'][0]['indexeddependencies']

>>>
['root', 'ROOT-0', 'shot-2']
['nsubj', 'shot-2', 'I-1']
['det', 'elephant-4', 'an-3']
['dobj', 'shot-2', 'elephant-4']
['poss', 'sleep-7', 'my-6']
['prep_in', 'shot-2', 'sleep-7']


EDIT2:

Now, the Stanford parser has an HTTP API. Thus, the python wrapper is not necessary anymore.

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