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Dependency Grammars
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    >>> from nltk.grammar import *
    >>> from nltk.parse import *

CoNLL Data
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    >>> treebank_data = """Pierre  NNP     2       NMOD
    ... Vinken  NNP     8       SUB
    ... ,       ,       2       P
    ... 61      CD      5       NMOD
    ... years   NNS     6       AMOD
    ... old     JJ      2       NMOD
    ... ,       ,       2       P
    ... will    MD      0       ROOT
    ... join    VB      8       VC
    ... the     DT      11      NMOD
    ... board   NN      9       OBJ
    ... as      IN      9       VMOD
    ... a       DT      15      NMOD
    ... nonexecutive    JJ      15      NMOD
    ... director        NN      12      PMOD
    ... Nov.    NNP     9       VMOD
    ... 29      CD      16      NMOD
    ... .       .       9       VMOD
    ... """


    >>> dg = DependencyGraph(treebank_data)
    >>> print dg.tree().pprint()
    (will
      (Vinken Pierre , (old (years 61)) ,)
      (join (board the) (as (director a nonexecutive)) (Nov. 29) .))

Using the dependency-parsed version of the Penn Treebank corpus sample.

    >>> from nltk.corpus import dependency_treebank
    >>> t = dependency_treebank.parsed_sents()[0]
    >>> print t.to_conll(3)  # doctest: +NORMALIZE_WHITESPACE
    Pierre      NNP     2
    Vinken      NNP     8
    ,   ,       2
    61  CD      5
    years       NNS     6
    old JJ      2
    ,   ,       2
    will        MD      0
    join        VB      8
    the DT      11
    board       NN      9
    as  IN      9
    a   DT      15
    nonexecutive        JJ      15
    director    NN      12
    Nov.        NNP     9
    29  CD      16
    .   .       8

Projective Dependency Parsing
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    >>> grammar = parse_dependency_grammar("""
    ... 'fell' -> 'price' | 'stock'
    ... 'price' -> 'of' 'the'
    ... 'of' -> 'stock'
    ... 'stock' -> 'the'
    ... """)
    >>> print grammar
    Dependency grammar with 5 productions
      'fell' -> 'price'
      'fell' -> 'stock'
      'price' -> 'of' 'the'
      'of' -> 'stock'
      'stock' -> 'the'
    
    >>> dp = ProjectiveDependencyParser(grammar)
    >>> for t in dp.parse(['the', 'price', 'of', 'the', 'stock', 'fell']):
    ...     print t
    (fell (price the of the) stock)
    (fell (price the of) (stock the))
    (fell (price the (of (stock the))))

Non-Projective Dependency Parsing
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    >>> grammar = parse_dependency_grammar("""
    ... 'taught' -> 'play' | 'man'
    ... 'man' -> 'the'
    ... 'play' -> 'golf' | 'dog' | 'to'
    ... 'dog' -> 'his'
    ... """)
    >>> print grammar
    Dependency grammar with 7 productions
      'taught' -> 'play'
      'taught' -> 'man'
      'man' -> 'the'
      'play' -> 'golf'
      'play' -> 'dog'
      'play' -> 'to'
      'dog' -> 'his'
    
    >>> dp = NonprojectiveDependencyParser(grammar)
    >>> for g in dp.parse(['the', 'man', 'taught', 'his', 'dog', 'to', 'play', 'golf']):
    ...     print g
    [{'address': 0, 'deps': 3, 'rel': 'TOP', 'tag': 'TOP', 'word': None},
     {'address': 1, 'deps': [], 'word': 'the'},
     {'address': 2, 'deps': [1], 'word': 'man'},
     {'address': 3, 'deps': [2, 7], 'word': 'taught'},
     {'address': 4, 'deps': [], 'word': 'his'},
     {'address': 5, 'deps': [4], 'word': 'dog'},
     {'address': 6, 'deps': [], 'word': 'to'},
     {'address': 7, 'deps': [5, 6, 8], 'word': 'play'},
     {'address': 8, 'deps': [], 'word': 'golf'}]