Text Parse

A plaintext parser written in JS for node. It parses any piece of text into paragraphs, sentences, words, letters and punctuation.

Installing

npm install text-parse

Running Tests

make test

Usage

var TextParse = require('text-parse');
var parser = TextParse();
console.log(parser.parse("This is some text?"));

Part of Speech Option

Optionally text-parse can return the part of speech of each word (powered by pos). To enable this option just include it in the option object parameter of the parser. So instead of using var parseTree = parser.parse(text) you can do var parseTree = parser.parse(text, {pos: true}) and it will return a partOfSpeech attribute on all the word objects. The part of speech tags are the same tags that pos returns.

Example

Input

text:

Sed ut unde, omnis error sit voluptatem; accusantium's.

Output

{
  raw: 'Sed ut unde, omnis error sit voluptatem; accusantium's.',
  type: 'text',
  length: 1,
  children:
  [{ raw: 'Sed ut unde, omnis error sit voluptatem; accusantium\'s.',
      type: 'paragraph',
      length: 1,
      children:
       [ { raw: 'Sed ut unde, omnis error sit voluptatem; accusantium\'s.',
           type: 'sentence',
           length: 8,
           children:
            [ { raw: 'Sed',
                type: 'word',
                length: 3,
                noPunctuation: 'Sed',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'S', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'e', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'd', type: 'letter' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'ut',
                type: 'word',
                length: 2,
                noPunctuation: 'ut',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'u', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 't', type: 'letter' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'unde,',
                type: 'word',
                length: 5,
                noPunctuation: 'unde',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'u', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'n', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'd', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'e', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: ',', type: 'punctuation' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'omnis',
                type: 'word',
                length: 5,
                noPunctuation: 'omnis',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'o', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'm', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'n', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'i', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 's', type: 'letter' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'error',
                type: 'word',
                length: 5,
                noPunctuation: 'error',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'e', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'r', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'r', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'o', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'r', type: 'letter' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'sit',
                type: 'word',
                length: 3,
                noPunctuation: 'sit',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 's', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'i', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 't', type: 'letter' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'voluptatem;',
                type: 'word',
                length: 11,
                noPunctuation: 'voluptatem',
                possessive: false,
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'v', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'o', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'l', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'u', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'p', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 't', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'a', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 't', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'e', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'm', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: ';', type: 'punctuation' },
                  ] },
              { raw: 'accusantium\'s.',
                type: 'word',
                length: 14,
                noPunctuation: 'accusantiums',
                possessive: true,
                withoutPossessive: 'accusantium.',
                children:
                 [ { raw: 'a', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'c', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'c', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'u', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 's', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'a', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'n', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 't', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'i', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'u', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: 'm', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: '\'', type: 'punctuation' },
                   { raw: 's', type: 'letter' },
                   { raw: '.', type: 'punctuation' },
                  ] },
              ] },
        ] },
    ]
}

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 Stephen Morrison [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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