TextBlob Parts of Speech Tagger with Penn Treebank Tag Explanations - CLI

pos.py

#!/usr/bin/python

# simple cli pos tagger for short sentences
# usage: pos.py some sort of sentance.
#    or: echo some sentance | pos.py
#
# takes some time to load, but may
# move on to use opennlp in a server role.

import sys, fileinput
from textblob import TextBlob as tb;

tags = {
  'CC': 'Coordinating conjunction',
  'CD': 'Cardinal number',
  'DT': 'Determiner',
  'EX': 'Existential there',
  'FW': 'Foreign word',
  'IN': 'Preposition or subordinating conjunction',
  'JJ': 'Adjective',
  'JJR': 'Adjective, comparative',
  'JJS': 'Adjective, superlative',
  'LS': 'List item marker',
  'MD': 'Modal',
  'NN': 'Noun, singular or mass',
  'NNS': 'Noun, plural',
  'NNP': 'Proper noun, singular',
  'NNPS': 'Proper noun, plural',
  'PDT': 'Predeterminer',
  'POS': 'Possessive ending',
  'PRP': 'Personal pronoun',
  'PRP$': 'Possessive pronoun',
  'RB': 'Adverb',
  'RBR': 'Adverb, comparative',
  'RBS': 'Adverb, superlative',
  'RP': 'Particle',
  'SYM': 'Symbol',
  'TO': 'to',
  'UH': 'Interjection',
  'VB': 'Verb, base form',
  'VBD': 'Verb, past tense',
  'VBG': 'Verb, gerund or present participle',
  'VBN': 'Verb, past participle',
  'VBP': 'Verb, non-3rd person singular present',
  'VBZ': 'Verb, 3rd person singular present',
  'WDT': 'Wh-determiner',
  'WP': 'Wh-pronoun',
  'WP$': 'Possessive wh-pronoun',
  'WRB': 'Wh-adverb'
}

if(len(sys.argv)>1):
  str = tb(' '.join(sys.argv[1:]))
else:
  str = tb(' '.join(fileinput.input()));

pos = str.tags

for x in range(len(pos)):
  print '%s - %s - %s' % (pos[x][0], pos[x][1], tags[pos[x][1]])