GrammarScope

What is it ?

It provides a simple-to-use graphic interface to the parse tree, grammatical structure, typed dependencies and semantic graph of any text as parsed by the Stanford Parser/Stanford CoreNLP. Written to Java 1.6 and Swing, it is portable across platforms.

Supported Platforms

It is portable across platforms that support Java 6 and Swing (Linux, Mac Os, Solaris, Windows...)

Screen captures

Browser

Editor

Editor with assistant

Parse Tree

Grammatical Structure

Typed Dependencies

Semantic Graph

Subject Predicate Object

Parse tree tooltip

Grammatical relation tooltip

Install

Run java -jar grammarscope-installer-[version].jar. Shortcuts will be created.

Start (from command line)

Make sure that bin/grammarscope.sh is executable on non-Windows platforms

Run bin/grammarscope.sh (non-Windows) or bin\grammarscope.bat (Windows) from install folder

Wizard

Alternatively bin/grammarscope-wizard.sh or bin\grammarscope-wizard.bat run from install bin folder, will launch a wizard to create the appropriate scripts. The wizard has a shortcut created when the installer is run.

Command line

linux/unices:

java -Xmx5G -cp <install-path>/lib/*:<install-path>/stanford/* grammarscope.browser.Browser [parameters]

windows:

java -Xmx5G -cp <install-path>\lib\*;<install-path>\stanford\* grammarscope.browser.Browser [parameters]

Note the -Xmx5G parameter sets the JVM memory heap to 5 giga bytes.

The wizard can be run with:

java -jar <install-path>/lib/grammarscope-runnable.jar

Stanford

The Stanford Parser/CoreNlp engine and models are meant to be in the <install-path>/stanford folder. Every JAR file that this folder contains ends up being included in the classpath. Newer versions of either Parser of CoreNlp can in theory be updated there if they are compatible but they usually require recompiling GrammarScope. So there is no guarantee it will work.

Memory requirements

3G will normally do fine when using the Parser. 5G is necessary when using the CoreNLP pipeline.

Doc

typed dependencies manual (pdf)

architecture (pdf)

architecture (svg)

dependency graph

dependency graph (with transitive dependency)