Fin-tense

Detect sentences tenses.

Installation

npm i --save fin-tense

Usage

import * as Fin from "finnlp";
import "fin-tense";

const sentence = "He was demonstrably wrong."
const instance = new Fin.Run(sentence);
const result = instance.tense();
console.log(result);

The above example would give:

[
    ["past","simple"]
]

Supported Tenses Types:

• ["present","simple"] Examples:
  • I work in a bank
  • I don't work in a bank
• ["present","progressive"] Examples:
  • She's cooking
  • She's not cooking
  • Is she working
• ["past","simple"] Examples:
  • I cooked
  • I didn't cook
  • What did you cook?
• ["past","progressive"] Examples:
  • She was working
  • Wasn't she working
  • What was she working on?
• ["present","perfect","simple"] Examples:
  • I have finished it
  • Haven't I finished it
  • When have she finished working?
• ["present","perfect","progressive"] Examples:
  • I have been learning english for a long time
  • They haven't been playing tennis for a long time
  • How ling have they been learning english
• ["past","perfect","simple"]
  • They had already met sarah before
  • They hadn't met sarah
  • Had they met sarah yet?
• ["past","perfect","progressive"] Examples:
  • I had been living in germany for years
  • How long had you been living here?
• ["future","simple","(going)"] Examples:
  • They are going to see me
  • Are they going to see me
  • When are they going to see me
• ["future","simple"] Examples:
  • They will see me
  • Will they see me
  • When will they see me
  • They won't see me
• ["future","progressive"] Examples:
  • I will be having fun
  • Will I be having fun
  • How will I be having fun?
• ["future","perfect","simple"]
  • They will have met me by then.
  • They won't have met me by then
• ["future","perfect","progressive"]
  • They will have been working with John next week
  • How long will they have been working with John next week?

How to interpret the tenses?

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