About the project

This is an npm module for accessing the moby parts-of-speech package. Moby is an open source project with many linguistic databases (all public domain). You can access more about their project by visiting the following URL: http://icon.shef.ac.uk/Moby/

Using moby-pos

This npm module aims to be pretty simple to use. It has a single method which you can call to look up the parts of speech information for a given word.

var pos = require('moby-pos');
console.log(pos.search("skeleton"));

Reading the output

The output of the above code should be N. That stands for Noun. The complete list of meanings can be found below.

Meaning | Letter ------- | ------- Noun | N Plural | P Noun Phrase | h Verb (usu participle) | V Verb (transitive) | t Verb (intransitive) | i Adjective | A Adverb | v Conjunction | C Preposition | P Interjection | ! Pronoun | r Definite Article | D Indefinite Article | I Nominative | o