OE Sentence Generator

And Old English Sentence Generator. This project makes use of wiktionary dumps to generate a database that can then be used to generate random Old English sentences.

Database Layout

The database consists of several tables

• English Words: Contains the english words used for translation.
• Old English Words: Contains all of the old english words including different forms, the is_conjugation field is used to determine if the word is a root or not.
• Declensions: Contains information about the different declensions for root nouns
• Conjugations: Contains information about the different conjugations for root verbs.
• Noun Information: Contains information such as the proto germanic ancestor (if any) and the gender
• IPA and syllable information: Contains the IPA translation of nouns and indicates the syllable count and syllable heaviness.

For more information about the tables specifically you can look in the schemas.py file.

Table Uses

These tables serve the purpose of providing ease of conjugation of all of the words, the dbinit.py file is used to generate the database.

POS

Even though the software automatically generates sentences, if you'd like it is also possible to generate single Parts of Speech. Currently only Nouns and Verbs are supported.

Nouns

The Noun class implements all of the methods needed to generate and decline a noun. You can either specify the root word manually, or have one randomly selected from the database.

from grammar.pos import Noun
n = Noun.get_random_word()  # Generates a new random noun

You can also specify restrictions, such as the available cases, gender, and plurality (Currently only Case and Plurality are implemented)

from grammar.pos import Noun
from grammar.restrictions import CaseRestriction, PluralityRestriction
from utils.grammar import Case, Plurality

# Generates a noun that has a nominative plural declension available
n = Noun.get_random_word([CaseRestriction(Case.NOMINATIVE), 
                          PluralityRestriction(Plurality.PLURAL)])

Verbs

The Verb class implements all of the methods needed to generate and conjugate a verb. You can either specify the root word manually, or have one randomly selected from the database.

from grammar.pos import Verb
v = Verb.get_random_word()  # Generates a new random verb

You can also specify restrictions, though, currently only Plurality and Transitivity are supported

from grammar.pos import Verb
from grammar.restrictions import PluralityRestriction
from utils.grammar import Plurality

# Generates a verb that has a plural conjugation available
v = Verb.get_random_word([PluralityRestriction(Plurality.PLURAL)])