evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate¶
English verb conjugation
Original Author: Tom De Smedt <tomdesmedt@organisms.be> of Nodebox Refactored by Griatch 2021, for Evennia.
This is distributed under the GPL2 license. See ./LICENSE.txt for details.
The verb.txt morphology was adopted from the XTAG morph_englis.flat: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~xtag/
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_infinitive(verb)[source]¶ Returns the uninflected form of the verb, like ‘are’ -> ‘be’
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to get the uninflected form of.
- Returns
str – The uninflected verb form of verb.
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_conjugate(verb, tense='infinitive', negate=False)[source]¶ Inflects the verb to the given tense.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The single verb to conjugate.
tense (str) – The tense to convert to. This can be given either as a long or short form - “infinitive” (“inf”) - be - “1st/2nd/3rd singular present” (“1/2/3sgpres”) - am/are/is - “present plural” (“pl”) - are - “present participle” (“prog”) - being - “1st/2nd/3rd singular past” (“1/2/3sgpast”) - was/were/was - “past plural” (“pastpl”) - were - “past” - were - “past participle” (“ppart”) - been
negate (bool) – Negates the verb. This only supported for a limited number of verbs: be, can, do, will, must, have, may, need, dare, ought.
- Returns
str – The conjugated verb. If conjugation fails, the original verb is returned.
Examples
The verb ‘be’: - present: I am, you are, she is, - present participle: being, - past: I was, you were, he was, - past participle: been, - negated present: I am not, you aren’t, it isn’t.
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_present(verb, person='', negate=False)[source]¶ Inflects the verb in the present tense.
- Parameters
person (str or int) – This can be 1, 2, 3, “1st”, “2nd”, “3rd”, “plural” or “*”.
negate (bool) – Some verbs like be, have, must, can be negated.
- Returns
str – The present tense verb.
Example
had -> have
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_present_participle(verb)[source]¶ Inflects the verb in the present participle.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to inflect.
- Returns
str – The inflected verb.
Examples
give -> giving, be -> being, swim -> swimming
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_past(verb, person='', negate=False)[source]¶ Inflects the verb in the past tense.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to inflect.
person (str, optional) – The person can be specified with 1, 2, 3, “1st”, “2nd”, “3rd”, “plural”, “*”.
negate (bool, optional) – Some verbs like be, have, must, can be negated.
- Returns
str – The inflected verb.
Examples
give -> gave, be -> was, swim -> swam
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_past_participle(verb)[source]¶ Inflects the verb in the present participle.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to inflect.
- Returns
str – The inflected verb.
Examples
give -> given, be -> been, swim -> swum
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_all_tenses()[source]¶ Get all all possible verb tenses.
- Returns
list – A list if string names.
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_tense(verb)[source]¶ Returns a string from verb_tenses_keys representing the verb’s tense.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to check the tense of.
- Returns
str – The tense.
Example
given -> “past participle”
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_is_tense(verb, tense)[source]¶ Checks whether the verb is in the given tense.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to check.
tense (str) – The tense to check.
- Returns
bool – If verb matches given tense.
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_is_present(verb, person='', negated=False)[source]¶ Checks whether the verb is in the present tense.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to check.
person (str) – Check which person.
negated (bool) – Check if verb was negated.
- Returns
bool – If verb was in present tense.
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_is_present_participle(verb)[source]¶ Checks whether the verb is in present participle.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to check.
- Returns
bool – Result of check.
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evennia.utils.verb_conjugation.conjugate.verb_is_past(verb, person='', negated=False)[source]¶ Checks whether the verb is in the past tense.
- Parameters
verb (str) – The verb to check.
person (str) – The person to check.
negated (bool) – Check if verb is negated.
- Returns
bool – Result of check.