Tag Parts Of Speech
Preliminaries
from nltk import pos_tag
from nltk import word_tokenizeCreate Text Data
text_data = "Chris loved outdoor running"Tag Parts Of Speech
text_tagged = pos_tag(word_tokenize(text_data))
text_tagged[('Chris', 'NNP'), ('loved', 'VBD'), ('outdoor', 'RP'), ('running', 'VBG')]
Common Penn Treebank Parts Of Speech Tags
The output is a list of tuples with the word and the tag of the part of speech. NLTK uses the Penn Treebank parts for speech tags.
| Tag | Part Of Speech |
|---|---|
| NNP | Proper noun, singular |
| NN | Noun, singular or mass |
| RB | Adverb |
| VBD | Verb, past tense |
| VBG | Verb, gerund or present participle |
| JJ | Adjective |
| PRP | Personal pronoun |